They gave me a thorough briefing on how to look after myself, I had a hotline to the local police station, and was trained to look under my car and to vary my route to work every morning.
After a thorough briefing and being fitted with protective 'skysuits', skywalkers make their way along two purpose-built walkways and platforms, which have transparent floors, while a guide points out landmarks.
Once everyone has had a thorough briefing on how to put on a condom, the lesson concludes with a condom race using the Easter Island penises, with pants for prizes.
Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Dianne Feinstein of California, Thomas Carper of Delaware and Benjamin Cardin of Maryland wrote to Comey and the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, to insist on a thorough briefing by Monday about Comey's decision to tell congressional officials about new material from an "unrelated case" – a decision that shook the campaigns with only 10 days to go.
"I remember looking out over the hills, and there were football fields of the shit, as far as you could see," he says, before giving me a thorough briefing on how to chop, trim and bag "all these huge plants – bigger than you!
Yet I managed to secure from Maria a thorough briefing on the house's quirks, a guide to the best and worst restaurants on the island and a lengthy explanation of the complexities of Sant'Antioco's garbage recycling program, which requires five separate bags and six collections every week.
Mr Zuma was speaking in a televised interview broadcast on Tuesday evening, having been given a "thorough briefing" on Monday by Mr Mandela's doctors.
Slow traffic also allowed time for a thorough briefing on the capital's inability to widen its roads due to public resistance, its 50-year battle to beat pollution and emphatic warnings against its armies of pickpockets.
After breakfast and a thorough briefing, the first set of divers geared up for their first hour in the cage.
If you're American and have ever travelled east without a thorough briefing, you may have found yourself utterly baffled the first time you walked into a public bathroom to do your business.
