Thanks for those compliments, Snipe and BA. I do feel good about my hair these days. And yes, BA knows my history of being busted in no uncertain terms many times in my earlier days of wearing. The worst one was over a decade ago in a mental hospital that I worked in when the elevator door opened up and a patient in a wheelchair took one look at me standing there and yelled out, "Is that a toupee?" right in front of several of my peers. I could give a long list of crazy things like that from over the years, but that's for another post.

I think Snipe is right that it's nobody's business, so this kind of "lie" (if you even want to call it that) is probably not the kind that is morally repugnant. I don't think it's hurting anyone. I also think that the first line of defense before misleading others who ask invasive questions in general is to say something to deflect the question like, "didn't you ever learn that it's not nice to ask invasive personal questions in a social gathering?"