Engines get locked (in the report) when you realize where your career path is going if it comes out you were goofing off when you ran into the (pick one) [tanker, dock, big rock, sand bar, huge military ship]

I added the military ship since I was on one participating in Memorial Day services when a sail boat, under power, tried to cross the channel in front of us and got us broadside (port). The captain of the sail boat started all sorts of excuses, but as we had quite a bit of brass on board up through pentagon, I doubt the sail boat captain got far with his story.