Creative Writing: Why Can't My Character Stop Her Voice Mail From Playing Out

Realistically, it's probably a new device that will do exactly what she wants, but she's not familiar with the technology.

Thanks a lot.

She could muffle the sound with her hand couldn't she?

She could turn off the speaker phone if she could find the right button to push on the many-buttoned phone.

Solar flares hitting earth's atmosphere can trigger weird effects in electrical apparatus, for example-
Sep 1859- Telegraph wires burst into flames, touching off fires .Telegraph machines scorched paper printouts, stunned operators with electric shocks, transmitted gibberish, and continued working for hours even after being unplugged from the batteries that powered them. The Earth itself was no longer "grounded"!

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Romeo, this is a great idea, I wouldn't know where to start looking if this was my office phone. Fantastic! Thank you. x

Thanks Butterfly net.

In this clip from the scifi/horror film 'The Stone Tape', the computer seems to come alive and starts printing out warnings at 1:20 saying- "Pray...soul...pray..".
(Basically a group of paranormal investigators are trying to trigger a ghost into appearing in an old haunted cellar)

What about she is dealing with food at the moment she decides to check the messages and having her hands and mouth busy at the moment the recording appears makes all the situation goofy and chaotic.

The first words of the recording said that the message is for someone else, and she and others who were close to her smiled because "the wrong number"received message.

When the message is in progress, everybody is paying attention. Suddenly she starts to realize that is not "a wrong number message" but is about her, and she tries to stop it.

One of the co-workers hold her hand impeding her attempt to push the stop button, because the message is more than interesting.

She panics, the message is telling everything about her.

The others are now more interested with the narration of details, and she decided to stop the recording by disconnecting the device.

Too late, the last words of the message mentioned her name, which was cut off when she pulled the cable (or finally pushed the stop button), but was understood by the others anyway.

Silence.

(I should decide to make the rest leaving the area trying to get busy in something else, perhaps one of them looking at her trying in vain to give her support... or make the rest laugh because the "joke" or laughs pretending it was a joke... choices are many)

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