Let's say you're a closet CD and someone who knows you catches you CDing, or just your stash.
What is the range of options you have for plausible (or absurd?) excuses? I'm fair at making excuses for my "weird" behaviors, so sometimes I practice making pretend excuses.
Once, though, I had to make a real excuse. I told this before, but in my early teens or so Mom found my sister's girl scout dress in my bed and confronted me with it when I came home from school. She asked sternly why I had it there. Without having prepared an excuse in advance, I unhesitantly said I wanted to see how long it would take my sister to miss the dress. I was lucky Mom was satisfied with that answer. It might have been unpleasant if she had expressed doubts about it.
I think the most plausible excuse I could come up with now, if I were caught in womens' clothes, is that I only do it privately because it's comfortable and looks nice to me and reminds me of my dead girlfriend (largely a true story) and I figure I'm not hurting anyone and I'm definitely not gay. I don't mean to knock being gay, but my family wouldn't care to hear that I'm gay and I'm not.
If I were caught wearing lipstick, nail polish, makeup, or a wig, etc, plausible excuses might be harder to come by. I have thought of saying it's for a fundraiser and I've thought of actually doing fundraisers like that.
Do you have good excuses? Even if you favor "total honesty", you're welcome to play the game and think up good or bad excuses. What are the worst excuses you've used, or heard? Or the most humorous?