Edge loop select question

http://www.extinctionlevelevent.com/misc/blender/edge_loop_select_a.jpg

http://www.extinctionlevelevent.com/misc/blender/edge_loop_select_b.jpg

What determines which loop will be selected? What do I do to get the one that I want?

Click on the edge of the loop you want, no?

Are you perhaps clicking on the vertex?