Harriet Craig said: "There are currently more than 3000 people ahead of me, and I figure that, at the rate the queue is moving, I’ll probably reach the front sometime in the middle of tonight’s performance of Eureka Day (which I’m going to), and I’ll lose my place and have to start all over again tomorrow.
No offense to anyone who is frustrated by how slowly the queue is moving, but I almost wish it would move so slowly I don’t reach the front until I get home after tonight‘s show. Better yet, I wish there were a way of pausing my place in the queue while I’m at the theater and then resuming it when I get home."
That's the most idiotic take on presale queues I've ever heard (or any other queues). Yes, if you leave a line, you loose your place in it.