The man leaned out his truck’s window, brought his hand in front of his windscreen, and repeatedly flicked his fingers like he was trying to rid his hands of droplets of water.
We were about 50 meters away at this point.
As we got closer, I realised his indicator wasn’t working, and him flicking his fingers was a way of letting oncoming traffic (us) know that he was turning onto our road.
Sometimes our products break. We find bugs in the code. Our processes become stale. So we find workarounds.
But a flicking hand will never be an indicator.
It’s up to us to decide what gets fixed, and what workarounds we choose to live with.