Rambling voice messages. Incoherent voice messages. Useless voice message. Send a text, for crying out loud!
You could just turn off your voice mail option on the cellphone. You could have a voice message that says: Text me at XXX.
As usual, however, tech to the rescue. YouMail.com answers calls, greets callers by their name, then transcribes voice messages into text.
It also tracks and blocks junk call numbers.
It seems like a lot of features for the low price of $5 a month, on the low end, to $50 a month for larger businesses.