Does anyone else have an unhealthy compulsion towards white lies whenever the truth is marginally harder to explain?

I'm not totally sure why, but I have a bad tendency to assume that people aren't going to believe me if I tell them a truth that feels even slightly hard to explain, and then make up something different instead that doesn't really paint me in a better light but just sounds more like regular human behavior if that makes sense. Like, if I ever enter a room, don't do anything, then leave, I feel like I need to come up with a lie about doing something or people are going to assume I actually did something bad. Ironically, this whole problem is also hard to explain, but I was just curious if anyone else had a similar experience.