You just have to remember that with a carbon steel wok, you don't wash it with soap, you just use an abrasive pad or brush with the hottest water you can get out of your faucet, and you dry it immediately.
Heh, we have a cast-iron pan which is dubbed "The Frying Pan of Doom".
A good one lasts a long time, I got LSA her wok in the late '70s.