You pick up the phone to dial your sister, and she is already on the line without dialing, or the phone ringing, as she has already called you.

But you know that if you did not go to call her, she would not have tried to call you - synchronicit causality

It was the act of picking up the phone that precipitated the event.

phone: why don’t you go to sleep tommy it’s 2 in the morning?
tommy:why don’t you die you dumbazz