Talk:The Sound of His Horn/@comment-39208632-20190612133205/@comment-25219384-20190616054554

In the last few months, the game was changed so that you can't use items or accept pending social invitations before fully completing the previous action (i.e. by progressing the the result screen).

I don't know if this was implemented for any sort of action (so I don't have first-hand knowledge if it would be applicable for this particular action), but it's definitely the case for some things for which in the past you could indeed use this method to avoid the action's implications.