Say what you mean the first time. It saves everybody three follow-up texts and a mood.

Hedging is usually an attempt to be polite, and it produces the opposite. A softened version of your actual point makes the other person guess, guess wrong and reply to something you did not say, and then you are both irritated and no closer. The clear sentence would have been kinder, just less comfortable to type.

Write the message, then find the sentence you are dancing around and put it first. Keep the warmth, drop the padding. Clear and friendly is a real combination, and it is faster for everybody involved.