I'm in my late 50's but even I can no longer tolerate slow anything.  I recently stayed in a hotel with reaallllyyy slow Wi-Fi and I almost lost my mind.  I complained so much they knocked 15% off the bill and I even had a dog that the neighbors complained about!  Instant gratification is what it's all about now and it worries me a little.

To me, stick-to-it-iveness is one of my most defining qualities and the one to which I owe perhaps the greatest part of my success.

People who "abandon ship" generally do not have rich interior lives, nor are they open to the insights and new avenues that can open up with detours or delays.

As the saying says "patience is a virtue". A sign of maturity is learning to deal with frustration.

The mind is a terrible thing to waste.  Filling it with nothing but superficiality results in garbage in, garbage out.  We are ceding human brains to thinking machines processing magnitudes of information that are truly incomprehensible to the smatest people on the planet and becoming a society of shallow followers to lazy to keep up.  

Streaming video perhaps is not the best thing to use as an example of impatience.  I am a fairly patient 50 year old.  Heck, I keep a large vegetable garden and that needs patience, believe me.  :-)  Still, I too abandon a slow to load video on the Internet as well because I've found that if a video has problems starting to load within a few seconds, the entire session and connection with that server mostly likely will prove to be problematic for the whole duration.  'Better to abandon the attempt and perhaps make a new attempt a bit later, than sit there watching a picture suffering unpredictable freeze-frame episodes.

I think boston.com has been working for years to encourage patient waiting for page loads.

Every time I get impatient waiting for things, information downloads, etc., I remember having to go the college library or The Boston Public to get reference material for my latest paper(s) in all kind of weather.  My impatience passes.