If there is a hotel or similar around for me to swipe my credit card, I don’t consider that a survival situation, or at least it would not be difficult to improvise and stay alive.

Maybe we should have a sub-forum “Equipped to be Comfortable”.

It is just using the available resources to the best of your ability. If you are properly equipped, what could have been a survival situation becomes an unplanned night of camping.

Be aware of what is available and know how to use it.

Excellent, and crucial, point. There is a continuum, ranging from delightful outings to camping trips with fatalities. Sometimes you have to endure melted ice cream, or,even worse, someone forgot the coffee. Eventually one learns to take a flashlight, even though the hike should end well before dark - also matches and extra water, etc.

Most of us learn this the hard way (myself definitely included) without suffering dire consequences...

Whoever forgets the coffee is already in a life or death survival situation if they are with me.

You are safe with me.. Via packets are in all my emergency kits, partly for morale and partly because a bit of a caffeine boost might be just the ticket is some situations.

... “because a bit of a caffeine boost might be just the ticket” ... every day first thing in the morning. Fixed it, you can thank me later

I keep Via in the truck’s food stock.

You are absolutely right...Mea culpa...I stand corrected.

I must not have had enough coffee this morning.

Yes, I carry caffeine pills.

Not if it's filled with water, but my 90+15 L Lowe Alpine Contour IV bag is quite comfortable when filled with a 50 lb load.

My ditty bag, which also serves as my EDC survival kit and lives in my handbag, at this very moment weighs 14.8 ounces, and yes, it contains a large ferrocerium rod, as well as a diamond-coated steel credit card-sized DiaSharp sharpening stone. Will I likely need these in my small town, if I were forced to walk the 2 miles from my office to my home, even in Winter? Probably not, but my handbag isn't onerous to carry.