Where’s My Exit?

I t looks like any other roundabout. When you enter you assume it will take less than 30 seconds to swing round locate your exit and take off into the future. That’s what everyone thinks and so do you — until you enter it. And once you do that intentionally or not you find it is a roundabout like none other at all.

A roundabout where entering holds no guarantees of a smooth exit. And once you are in all entrances and exits disappear. Different cars keep coming so you figure there must be exits somewhere. And you don’t understand how this is working how can it be because you are driving and so are they only they are moving off in countless endless magical directions while you are stuck on and on and on rounding the same bends same trees same scenery.

It gets dizzying after a while.

And boring.

And slowly but surely it gets frightening too.

Then the exits appear winking like diamonds in the sunlight. And you see the first one as it edges its way into your peripheral vision and your first instinct is to signal off wherever this will lead you wherever it will take you because who knows how long you will be stuck here otherwise.