406, the controller is hinting there is nobody ahead to hold you up, so he's leaving it down to you to expedite your approach as you see fit. If you are on an instrument rating, you do the full caboodle. But if you are not, and you are tracking on, I would suggest it is not unreasonable to 'tweak' your track inbound to allow you to satisfactorily track outbound in the approach. Similarly for failoperational if you are tracking in on the boundary between 2 sector entries, it is absolutely reasonable to tweak your track inbound so you are in the most convenient sector of the two. In practice, despite your best efforts to track staight in, the needles will bias one way or the other. All you would be doing would be 'helping' them to go the right way!