I recommend you practice responding with short and to the point text messages. I know nice guys want to be polite and all of that NGS stuff, but you get way too wordy and overly-polite. Try keeping it down to a dozen words, if possible. It cuts out all that chit-chat. In some cases, keep it down to a half dozen.
It is not about what you feel should work in your M. It is about doing the work that gets the right results. Do what works!
