It's seems like you (and the original poster) don't know understand the game telephone. Telephone is when, through a series of repetitions, an original message

It's seems like you (and the original poster) don't know understand the game telephone. Telephone is when, through a series of repetitions, an original message is altered to something nonsensical. I think the term you were searching for is "phone tag," where two parties repeatedly miss eachother with phone calls and instead communicate through phone messages.