Here’s the thing … I was at work the other day and there’s a new kid who asks a lot of questions - which is good, but there’s a limit. In my frustration I muttered to myself, “Chrissakes, this guy is chronically incapable of making a decision.” I know I’ve heard that line (or something akin to it) somewhere else before but I can’t put my finger on it. It may be from a TeeVee show or a movie, I don’t know. The only context is I seem to remember it coming out at a moment of frustration or climax about someone who was supposed to be a leader or a boss or something.
I did watch the first season of that a few years ago, but I don’t think that’s where it’s from. I’m hearing in my head a frustrated person finally screaming at someone who should know better about a group of people running something.
I know. Vague. Maybe even apocryphal, but that’s my brain for you.
First guy I thought that applied to was for General McClellan during the US civil war. But a quick search just pointed at lines that riffed on that sentiment, not that quote.
In the spring of 1861, a civilian railroad director recalled that McClellan “can never make up his mind under two or three weeks on any matter and when he has made it up, is by no means certain about his decision.