My wife is vastly more paranoid than me. Beyond that my situational awareness, is crap. Its mostly her saying something with the premise of letting me off leash. She may as well just say "go get him boy."
We used to live in a terrible neighborhood in AZ and there was more than one night that involved me getting woken from a deep sleep by my wife. I knew the look that said "your pistol is right there, listen for a minute than go figure it out"