FCPX clip stacking ad infinitum

I'm wondering if there's anyway to work around this issue I'm experiencing.
I was just assembling my clips in a timeline. There were a couple of points where I had a series of short clips where I wanted/needed to expand the audio and video tracks so I could extend the audio under preceding and following clips in order to smooth their transition from one to another. As I did it, each successive clip was raised above the preceding one. Up and up they went. (or down, in the case of the disconnected audio tracks) Eventually I had this mountain of clips rising above the timeline that made it pretty difficult to keep track of things.
So my question: why? And can it be avoided? Why do these clips go up and up? In most cases there was no bumping into other clips and there was plenty of room for one clip to go up the next one down, the next one up, etc. in a more "zig-zag" pattern. Is fact, a number of times I tried dragging down a clip from its lofty heights towards the timeline where I could monitor it only to have it pop back up to its perch above.
Here's what I'm talking about in case I'm the only one experiencing this phenomenon (ha ha):
well...I was GOING to include a screen shot but neither Safari, Firefox nor Chrome will allow me to post any photo. Interesting. Well, I hope my verbal description suffices.

in addendum to Luis excellent advice:
I assume, you're talking about something like that?
What you like to accomplish is a J-cut (or L-cut - other way round ) and therefore you detached the audio.
aside the option to staple the clips in any order by drag'n moving with the mouse ....
As Luis already said, that's not needed, there's an easier and faster way, Apple describes here:
Final Cut Pro X: Create split edits
@Luis: I can see your pic - can you see mine?

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