You could always say “Well, I was playing Captain Ahab in a community theater production of “Moby Dick”, and I really get into that method acting”
Where I worked, we would come in costumes ar Halloween...For a week before Halloween, I would walk around going “ARRRGGGG!!!”
Everyone said I would a pirate....
On Halloween, my wife found some 6 inch rubber sharks...She hung them by thread from a pair of shorts I had and I left my prosthetic in the car...Painted my nub red....And went as a “shark attack victim”....
I won the contest!!!ROFL