Does the sign "Watch Your Step" make you feel like you're being told you have no sense?

Not usually, all by itself. I acknowledge that it can be helpful to bring more attention than usual in some places.

However, stickman hazard signs are often pretty funny, and some hazard warnings do seem pretty ridiculous to me.

No. Signs like that just make me wonder about the lawsuit that prompted them.

No, it makes me hear the verdict that fateful day for the small business owner who thought everyone knew that walking on stairs required extra attention. Thanks to all who have helped turn America into the law-suit-happy oasis it is today!

I prefer this sign

No. Simple warnings are just simple reminders to help keep people from being/getting hurt. And there’s nothing wrong with that. If a person might be offended in some way by such a sign, it might imply that it is a personal problem.

No. It likely means that someone has foreseen a potentially dangerous situation and is trying to spare others any difficulty.

Exactly the same as “don’t vote Trump”. Sure, you can vote for him, but you’re being warned about a potentially dangerous situation.

No. I don’t want to miss the step because it’s dark or barely a change in floor height. I’d rather not twist my ankle or fall down thank you.

No, I’m happy to get a heads up. It’s not much different than the road signs that tell you there are hairpin turns ahead or that there might be deer running across the road.

I’m also OK with having a sign on the fridge at work telling people not to steal other people’s lunches. It puts the thief on alert.

One of my favorite signs at work was put there by my friend. It said: I’m not your mother! Wash your own dishes and don’t leave them in the community sink!

Forewarned is forearmed. I’m happy to be put on alert. Very similar to the yellow wet floor signs. I’d rather be cautious and not bust my ass, thank you.

Usually when you see a sign like that it means someone had an issue there for one reason or another. Even Einstein probably stepped in dogshit at least once in his life. I usually appreciate the heads up.

I went on a speed awareness course and the teacher told us that each and every warning sign on the UK roads has earned its place there through a bad accident (or several minor accidents) having occurred. That’s how they decide where to put warning signs. Now the UK is not as litigious as the US, not sure about Canada, but I hope that most signs are there because some accident has occurred and it seems prudent to warn others of the danger.

As always with these things it depends on context.

When I see a place that is somewhat overprotective in “warning” about everything that could possibly happen to a person, then it becomes just so much noise, and especially so when the place is managed – usually well-managed – to mitigate most hazards, then it’s ignorable, probably redundant, and maybe even stupid. (For example, a business office with a “Watch Your Step!” because you’re walking through an exterior door that has a threshold. It’s like, “Really? You think I need a warning for a threshold? Have I never seen an exterior door before?”

On the other hand, some places are not so well-run and informative, like a messy, dimly-lit industrial building that might have an unexpected step up or step down to or from the shop floor, but the floor is dirty, there are no other floor markings to indicate the elevation change, and people unfamiliar to the environment can miss the change and trip, then those warnings are golden. And necessary.

Context. It’s all context.

EDIT to add: Sometimes, in contradistinction to @Seek‘s humorous example, the emphasis on safety is misplaced.

I have a whole book full of funny signs. Any opportunity to inject humour is going to be better received than the standard, formal warning signs that are ignored every day.

Here’s a good one.
And This.

Signs no, but when people point out the obvious, it can be annoying. I know people mean well but I do not like being “mothered” and treated as if I have no sense of my own. One of my pet peeves is when tell you to “drive carefully.”
Noooo, I’m going to drive as recklessly as possible. lol

Just the other day a quasi friend told me if I was afraid being home alone in the storm we had I could come over.
WTF!
I’m fine, thank you very much, I like storms and I have lived alone in these hills for, ooh, about 20 years longer than you have and I don’t get “scared.”
She’s the paranoid type projecting onto me.

I know she meant well but it really annoyed me. I am very independent and quite capable of being home alone during a thunderstorm without crawling under the bed like a terrified dog. lol

Edited:This http://www.fluther.com/195939/what-does-it-mean-to-be-passive-aggressive/ thread is what inspired the question.

@CWOTUS “Watch Your Step!” because you’re walking through an exterior door that has a threshold. It’s like, “Really? You think I need a warning for a threshold? Have I never seen an exterior door before?” Geniuses have had accidents too.

@Coloma: My thinking about going to someone’s house in a storm is 1.) I’d love to be home alone and enjoying the peace and 2.) unless you stay overnight at her house, eventually you have to leave and get in your car and drive home, which means going out. It seems much easier to stay in totally in your own house.