I'm walking to work today as normal, it's the most exercise I get unfortunately, and I come to a four-way stop. Being that rare pedestrian who usually obeys traffic laws, I stop, cross south, then stop again to cross east, as does apparently a car beside me. I assume this, because I checked for a turn signal as I am wont to do due to a strange obsession with living and remaining intact.
Imagine my surprise when I put my foot down on the road that instead of also going east, the car was instead turning south. We acknowledged each other, I thought maybe he was pissed at me and maybe I missed his turn signal, but as he continued his turn I noted that there was indeed no signalling happening. Then I was very pissed at him. Use your fucking turn signal, asshole. There is a reason it's there, AND NOT HITTING PEOPLE IS THAT REASON! Holy crap, how friggin' hard is that little flick of your hand to turn the fucking turn signal on? I've driven before, it doesn't seem that fucking hard! I've never seemed to have a problem with it.
He came to a stop at the four-way intersection first, so I would have let him go first had he been signalling. I've seen those idiot pedestrians who don't seem to think that stop signs and basic traffic rules apply to them. I'm not like that. If you have the right of way, you get the right of way (unless you signal me to cross, then thank you, especially in bad weather). The only think I ask is to know what direction you intend to travel in, and unless I see a blinking light I'm going to expect you to be driving forward.
Your turn signal. It's not just a neat idea, it's the law fuckwad.