Two talking and one said to the other: "why are you so cynical?" A curious passer-by asked the bystander: "what are these people up to?" Boldly replying he said: "the taller fellow is angry because the short one said he's a silly cat." See how "cynical" got distorted to "silly cat" in a jiffy - interesting!
So if a single story is told differently like it's sometimes on here, especially as contrasted with the one you heard before, some narrator is tending to mislead, is being economical with the fact, or has an insanely hasty tendency to say it first, regardless. As regards the cited example, the bystander is weak at saying 'I don't know.'
Where the accounts are different, don't take chances, because one may be true and the other false, or both false. But if you must know, verify. If you happen to be a compulsive okra-mouth, go ahead and let the genie out of the bottle - open a Pandora's box if you like, it's none of my business - I just hate it that you're gonna lose your cred and your right to the respect of your dignity, and "my body will die" for you.
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