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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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh yes. I do the same. And I often fantasize about telling these dicks that their turn signals are broken.