“Capt. Melanie Merrick”
Appears that the Mercy hit the dock while backing up.
Heck - I just replaced a taillight on my wife’s van. Again.
That was my first thought, but Commander Merrick seems to be in charge of the hospital staff and the harbor pilots were responsible for safe navigation in the harbor.
Maybe you can say your better half is in charge of the Homefront and is absolved from taillight damage.
LOL...when our kids were little, we got a Suburban for me to drive. I knocked the driver side mirror off twice (over a few months), backing up/in to areas. Hubby was not happy (at $250.00/pop), and just could not understand how I could (repeatedly) do that.
He was backing the beast out of our garage one day and - crunch - off went the (newly replaced) driver side mirror! We got rid of that Suburban, soon after.