Raven, I've had this happen to me before as well as a client, and I would say where you messed up was to wait a half hour after your text cancelling to pick up your phone and see his response. That gave him a half hour to get more and more irritated as he turned around and drove back home.
What you did was much better than the gal that last texted me when I left home then never responded again after I drove 45 minutes to see her, but you asked how you could have handled it better and there is my opinion on that.
Yep you probably did the right thing to cancel, but if you left him hanging for 30 minutes before you looked at his response then that is the one thing that could have been done better. He worked up a pretty good pissed off in the 30 minutes of no communication and he would not have been a good client at that point even is he had agreed to see you.
Sorry it happened, but there ain't no fixing it now so just shake it off and move on.
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