Self-sufficiency

It's such a fallacy.  It takes a lot of help to do a self-contained bicycle trip, at least in my case.  I've spent several days now traveling through the hill country,  and it is has been magnificent and memorable.  It's quite isolated up here , and little towns are a long way apart, by bicycle. 
  Wednesday afternoon I rolled into Hunt, TX, a booming metropolis of several hundred people.  But Hunt has a bank, a store, a restaurant, and two lodges.  I called ahead and secured a room at one of them (just before I lost cell reception).  Unfortunately,  the store had been sold that week and was closed for inventory.  Equally as unfortunate,  the restaurant was between shifts with noone in the kitchen that could put any food together for me.  The best the owner (manager?) could do was to sell me a piece of pie.  I had no food left with me, planning to reprovision in Hunt,  had had a strenuous day getting there and was planning on a more ambitious day the next.  I had to have some fuel.  I called Cindy, the manager at the River Inn where I was staying.  She said she could put a basket of food together for me from what she had, as she lived on-site.  And so she did.  She came up with cans of soup, bread,eggs, coffee, hot chocolate, some fruit, even some spam.  My room had a kitchenette, and I ate very well that night and the following morning for breakfast.  She even brought down some cupcakes that she had just baked.    
  I guess I'm learning on another level a lesson I learned a long time ago.  There's no such thing as self-sufficiency.  And another thing... if someone can't (or won't) help me, don't be resentful... I'm not their responsibility.  Just go ask someone else.