You're about as subtle as a fucking train wreck. On a boat.

I know there's a train wreck coming.

a train wreck in slow motion.

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect

It's simply too late to overhaul the system at this point. It would be a train wreck.