LOL, so you DO understand!
As you know, I was making a reference to the Naval tradition of groundings/collisions.
As you well know, if you damage a ship in either a collision or a grounding...there isn’t much in the way of mercy or even understanding. The poor, pitiful subjects all pretty much know it too.
Just the way it is...
true oh so true... People often site the Nimitz story(and he wasn’t the only one to have survived similar situations), but so much has changed now. Back then Naval Officers had TRUE ambassadorial powers in the 1800 and early 1900s (still on the books). Now if you sneeze in the wrong direction you can forget the next promotion board ... unless of course you “know someone”. Wooden ships and iron men are so passe after all....