Watch Your Step


               Upon entering the little country store, the stranger noticed
          a  sign saying; DANGER! BEWARE OF DOG!  posted on the glass door.
          Inside he  noticed a harmless old  hound dog asleep on  the floor
          besides the cash  register. He asked the store  manager, "Is THAT
          the dog folks are supposed to beware of?"
               "Yep, that's him," he replied.
               The  stranger couldn't help  but be amused.  "That certainly
          doesn't look like a  dangerous dog to me. Why in  the world would
          you post that sign?"
               "Because";  the owner replied,  "before I posted  that sign,
          people kept tripping over him."