@futurebird (complete tangent on soldering iron fears of a different sort)
One of the funniest work interactions I've been part of:
I sometimes write embedded software professionally. During the early days at one job, a connection popped loose from a development board I was working with.
No big deal; I walked next door to the hardware lab with intent to tack the connection back down.
Dead silence when the new software guy asked to borrow a soldering iron.