Who? What? How?...

There are moments when someone is telling me a story that gets too complicated with who told whom who was there and who heard them and how that other one lied but the one who was there didn't hear anything, and somewhere in the middle of the story, your attention drifts away, even a fly can suddenly get your attention, and the other person is deep into the story now, you gather your thoughts back and try to focus but you realize it is too late to catch up by now, you stick to what you heard at the beginning and ask: who? the one who heard them? and pray that it falls right in place. Most of the time, it doesn't.