Pride and soba isn't tasty

I am really upset with myself. I have never accepted a spoon or fork in lieu of chopsticks, but always made myself ganbatte and take forever to eat if I had to, in order to not use a spoon or fork. In Okinawa, they have this special soba that we tried on our last day. It is a thinner soba that is pretty much impossible to pick up with chopsticks unless you're an expert. So I ganbatte'd and ate everything else except the soba and just decided I would get to try it when I had the hand coordination. But the teachers saw my bowl and asked me why I wasn't eating it. I told them it was a little difficult...big mistake. So before I knew it, they called the waiter over and in two seconds, had a fork for me to use. After all that fuss and mistaken kindness, I couldn't just refuse to use the fork. So I used the damn fork, but the soba was tasteless and hard to swallow, I think because it was drenched in pride.