Public Service Announcement: Turn Signals

The lack of turn signal use makes me apoplectic. Aside from pressing down on the gas pedal, it might be the easiest thing to use in a car and there is no excuse not to use it. As such, this post is a bit of a surprise for me.

For the love of god, people... when you are faced with an off-set intersection such as this one:

and you want to go straight, DO NOT USE YOUR TURN SIGNAL! It's confusing and creates all sorts of traffic related confusion, be it cars, bikes, or pedestrians. As you can see from the picture, you don't even change street numbers. Plus, there's only only three options: left, right, and "straight." Ideally, we can figure out that if you don't signal, you're continuing on 52nd (in this scenario and provided you aren't one of those assholes who doesn't signal at all). 

This intersection happens to be on my bike route to work, so I've had time to build up a lot of rage about this subject.

Conversely, when faced with an intersection life this:

please, do use a turn signal, even if you're making that slight right. It's the nice thing to do.