I know watcha mean!
Here's a problem I (and I'm sure many others) have run into: I call them 'the village gossips'< they are impossible to train, because every time, as soon as you start to train them on a particlar chore, someone starts talking to them and they QUIT doing it to listen! No matter where you put them to train, they ALWAYS get interrupted and STOP working! ARGGHHH, I HATE that!