Now we know. . .

John, our genial host for the Ten Dollar T-bone Night at Little Six casino, hails from Palm Desert, California. So we asked him: "How come they have a sign on the date groves there that say you enter the grove at your own risk?"
When last we visited his hometown, we took a picture of what we considered an unusual sign (above).
John explained: "Dates grow in big hard clumps and they can bonk you a good one on the noggin when they come down."
So now we know. Here we always thought of dates as soft and squishy as in Kathleen's date cookie filling.