Let's face it, from childhood onward... most of us revert to Avoidance! Why not? If it scares us, makes us feel queasy, or plain uncomfortable, why not stay away from such situations. After all, it works, doesn't it, or does it? It does have the temporary effect of making us feel better. Then along comes our good old childhood friends (or bullies), who start to taunt us... or DARE us... or worse DOUBLE-DARE us! What's the matter, are you chicken? Then contemptuously, wow, you are such a Scardey-Cat!
Then there are the stories, and oh what marvelous dreadful stories they repeat, each one being exaggerated a little bit more so that before you know it, this has become something
that happened to the girl down the street only a few years ago. Additionally, what about cultural implications and family traditions, regional area customs practiced in your area.

Great examples that we see along the highways in the American Southwest are "Descansos" which is the Spanish word for the roadside memorials that pepper our state. The word “descanso” comes from the Spanish word meaning “to rest” (as in a resting place, either a final one for a body or a temporary one for pallbearers making their way to a grave). Roadside memorials are both traditional and popular in the Southwest. Another aspect of the myth about Descansos is that they represent from a cultural and folkloric perspective, an “interrupted journey in life,” a path (physical, spiritual, or metaphorical)
whose course has been altered (altered by tragedy) (Radford, 2000).