Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1881 — The Undecided Man. [ARTICLE]

The Undecided Man.

The undecided man is, perhaps, the greatest bore in existence. He is a trouble to himself and every one with whom he comes in contact. For instance, there is Thistledown, who lives half-way between two avenues by which horse-cars convey passengers down town. When he gets out of doors of a morning he stands on his doorstep and looks first up the street and then down to see if there are any cars coming, which is perfectly useless, as he couldn’t see them, on account of intervening buildings, if they were. Then he goes to the corner of one avenue, and, not discovering the necessary vehicle in sight, he walks the full length of the street to the other main thoroughfare. By the time he gets there he sees a car passing at the other end of the block and he hurriedly retraces his steps. He is too late, however, to catch the conductor’s eye, and he makes a dive down the street in the opposite direction only to miss another car. Thus he spends his morning like a kind of human pendulum, and gets to his place of business about noon. As a waster of his own and other people’s time he is undoubtedly a great success. — Boston Courier.