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...is that a lot of the time, if you miss your turn you can just keep going around and come back to it. 
This one's a bit of a self-sighting, a bit "dangit road crew get your shit together!"
The roads around my suburb are getting resealed, and the crews have reached the Big Roundabout right near our house (two lanes, lots of traffic - you can go straight through in either lane, but if you want to go left you have to be in the left lane as you enter, likewise if you want to go right you have to be in the right lane. You Do Not Change Lanes In The Roundabout). When I came back from an errand earlier today, the left lane in the road I was entering by had been blocked off, so everybody had to merge right and then sort themselves out once they reached the roundabout itself. Everyone was behaving nicely, driving slow but not hitting the brakes, etc.
Well, turns out I had to do another (unexpected) errand, came back by the same road just now, and the sign saying the left lane was blocked was still up, so I merged right into a nice convenient gap...
...and both lanes were open, and everyone zipped forward and closed the gaps in the left lane, and so I found myself entering the roundabout in the right lane but wanting to go left. Cue me doodling around 270 degrees, making a full turn and a quarter in the roundabout and heading off home with the silliest grin ever on my face because it hit me right in the funnybone.
(edited to fix the number of degrees because geometry was never my strong suit...)
This one's a bit of a self-sighting, a bit "dangit road crew get your shit together!"
The roads around my suburb are getting resealed, and the crews have reached the Big Roundabout right near our house (two lanes, lots of traffic - you can go straight through in either lane, but if you want to go left you have to be in the left lane as you enter, likewise if you want to go right you have to be in the right lane. You Do Not Change Lanes In The Roundabout). When I came back from an errand earlier today, the left lane in the road I was entering by had been blocked off, so everybody had to merge right and then sort themselves out once they reached the roundabout itself. Everyone was behaving nicely, driving slow but not hitting the brakes, etc.
Well, turns out I had to do another (unexpected) errand, came back by the same road just now, and the sign saying the left lane was blocked was still up, so I merged right into a nice convenient gap...
...and both lanes were open, and everyone zipped forward and closed the gaps in the left lane, and so I found myself entering the roundabout in the right lane but wanting to go left. Cue me doodling around 270 degrees, making a full turn and a quarter in the roundabout and heading off home with the silliest grin ever on my face because it hit me right in the funnybone.
(edited to fix the number of degrees because geometry was never my strong suit...)
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