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Old 07-19-2023, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by coffeebean View Post
What is so difficult to understand if you picture the RAB as an analog clock. You enter at 6:OO and exit at 9:00. Visualize that you have made a LEFT TURN even though you had to turn your steering wheel to the right to exit the RAB. This is not that difficult.

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Enter the RAB at 6:00 and exit at 12:00. You just went straight even though you had to turn you steering wheel to the right to exit the RAB.

It is a circle. If you don't turn your steering wheel to the right at any given time to exit, you will just go around in circles. Have fun. Wheeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!
That's pretty much my point, to explain WHY some people find it confusing. Because we refer to exits as "lefts" when in fact, we are exiting to our RIGHT. Once we get to our chosen exit, that exit becomes a RIGHT exit. Even though when we enter the circle, we're heading "left" - to get around the circle. The exit itself is a right exit.

That's why it's confusing to some people. Because we keep referring to those 9 o'clock exits as lefts, when they are not lefts, once we get to them. Because we keep referring to the 12-o'clock exits as "straight" when in fact we aren't going straight, we're going around in a curve, and then taking a RIGHT to get out.

That's why it's confusing to some people. And around and around we go - but if you ever want to get out - turn your wheel to the RIGHT.