"My mom loves to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches while watching soap operas."
Remember that old-school game of "telephone" in elementary school? The one where you get in a line and the teacher whispers something in the first kid's ear, then they relay it to the next person and the next person until it reaches the end of the line?
Inevitably, the message that came out on the other end would be nothing like the message that went in.
That lesson didn't teach us anything. We still relay messages through other people instead of telling them ourselves - and assume that the message will get there clearly and concisely.
It won't.
But it's even worse. You remember the kid in your class that always screwed up the telephone game on purpose? That kid grew up to be an adult. And he has friends. To this day they still get enjoyment out of messing up the telephone game.
In school there were rules. You couldn't just bypass the line and relay the message directly to the person at the end of the line. In real life, you can.
If you want to remove a lot of headaches from your life, stop relaying important messages through other people. It just doesn't work. And stop being the relay as well.
Oh, and if you're the guy or gal screwing up the messages on purpose, we need to talk...