What is your default excuse you give to muggles who ask what you are up to or if you need help?

[+DARKSIDEDAN]

What is your default excuse you give to muggles who ask what you are up to or if you need help?

[+lee737]

I'm always with one or two smaller kids, so we are rarely asked. I did tell a pair of ladies what we were doing before the kids scooted under the picnic table they were sitting out, and plucked a nano out from just about between their legs! Kids do come in handy caching.....

[+DARKSIDEDAN]

For me I tell people Im playing Pokemon Go

[+Ministro]

I simply explain I'm going Geocaching!

[Darwin473]

As a six plus foot weirdo, it's rare that I get challenged.

 

But my default response is honesty, starting with a cheerful "have you heard of geocaching?"  

[+kunarion]

8 hours ago, Ministro said:

I simply explain I'm going Geocaching!

 

It depends on how much time I have for explanation.

Me: "I'm Geocaching."

They:  "Geo-WHATsit?!"

Me:  [explanation ensues]

They: "Oh, yeah, I've heard of that."

 

But I usually allow their own imagination to run wild.  I won't be able to dissuade people from their first impression.

I emerged from a swamp onto a trail, and someone was right there, and asked me "Did you catch any snakes?"  He decided that's what I was doing.

Me:  "No snakes today".

[+Goldenwattle]

Sometimes I admit the truth. Other times some other excuse, such as admiring the artwork, as when caught in an alleyway by a graffiti artist who wanted to know what I was doing. He seemed pleased and we had a conversation about it. Some of the graffiti we discussed:

 

 

Another person who had spotted me under a bridge where there was graffiti, made the excuse for me. Fortunately I had also been photographing the graffiti. As I emerged he was standing there with his dog, which he had been walking.

He said, "Someone else looked at you strangely, but I knew what you were doing. You were photographing the graffiti. I like it too."

Then followed another conversation about the graffiti. (And I found the cache.) Some of the graffiti.

 

 

 

Another, completed unrelated; added just for fun

 

 

Edited November 5, 2021 by Goldenwattle

[+colleda]

I'm searching for a rare venomous spider/snake - wanna help?