“It’s not a principle if it doesn’t cost you anything”

Also just curious about your deeply held principles in general.

No political grandstanding please.

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    Don’t know if that counts, but I will use my turn signals every. fucking. time. At dead of night, with no other (visible) traffic around, doesn’t matter.

    Granted, it’s the law, but I can develop an irrational hate towards other drivers for not using them. And this will happen multiple times a day.

    So maybe not the kind of inconvenient you’re after, but at least I’m sticking to it.

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      If you do it habitually, it won’t cost you thought or effort. You’ll just do it by muscle memory. The bar for obtaining and keeping a drivers license is too damn low.

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        Yes, I know. That’s also why I keep doing it, so it will stay a habit.

        Also, that’s why I said it might not be the kind of inconvenience OP was after.

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      When I was learning to drive, the government issued pamphlet included a phrase similar to, “Always use your signals, the car you don’t see is most likely to be the one that hits you.”

      So I use my signals for any turn, any lane shift, no matter the context, no matter where I’m driving.

      When I was carpooling to work a long time ago, a friend gave me some friendly grief over my usage of turn signals within an apartment complex’s parking lot. “Why are you using your signal? There’s nobody here.”

      “Because the car I DON’T see is the one most likely to hit me.” “But there’s nobody here.” “Nobody that you see, but what about the car you don’t see?”

      She didn’t get it.