| Bindaas Deal: Facts, Fiction & Features Do the dare! | | | | Tool Kit. That added to my thrill. Five days to go |
| It’s cut throat stylish! | | | | before I embarked upon my first adventure travel. |
| ‘Man vs. Wild’ is my favorite show on TV. Bear | | | | Woo hoo! |
| Grille, the presenter uses the untamed resources of | | | | Starting with the pen blade Pa taught me how to use it |
| nature to survive. He goes where nobody dares to go | | | | carefully to cut open things. Then came the flat blade |
| and does things people don’t even dream about | | | | knife and the main knife with a 2.5 inch blade. Wow, I |
| doing in their wildest thoughts. I always wanted to be in | | | | felt like a grown-up man! Mom always kept me at bay |
| his shoes (not that he wears any!) My folks knew | | | | from such “trouble”. Then Pa taught me how to |
| about my adventurous spirit. They gave me a | | | | use the most fabulous tool, the pliers. My amazement |
| thumbs-up instantly for going on an adventure tour with | | | | grew as he displayed how to use the wire crimper |
| my friends during the summer holidays. On one | | | | and wire cutter to mould and chop wire. On the third |
| condition though; I must carry with me the Swiss Army | | | | day Pa asked, “You love fish beta, but do you |
| Style 12-in-1 Multi Purpose Tool Kit. | | | | know how to scale and cook it when you have no |
| “The Swiss Army Style 12-in-1 Multi Purpose Tool | | | | grub left to eat?” That was when I learnt how to |
| Kit, my son” said Pa, “was a must-have during | | | | use the hook dislodge for taking off the hook from the |
| our times when I went on these adventure trips with | | | | fishes’ mouth and the fish scaler to remove the |
| my college gang.” So it was decided. Over the next | | | | scales. |
| few days Pa taught me the relevance and importance | | | | The screw drivers were easy. However, Pa taught |
| of using various tools in the toolkit and made an expert | | | | me the difference between a TORX and a Philips and |
| out of me. | | | | a pointed bit. I felt like a genius and was dying to flaunt |
| Did I mention that my dad is a nature photographer? | | | | it! On the last day Pa flipped open a couple of cola |
| Adventure runs in my blood. However, I must confess | | | | cans with the can opener. “Cheers my boy! You |
| that the Swiss Army Style 12-in-1 Multi Purpose Tool | | | | are a pro now!” he remarked with a smile. |
| Kit was my pa’s priced possession that he got | | | | I somewhat understood the smile. In teaching me how |
| from my grandpa. And nobody but he touched it. So, | | | | to use the Swiss Army Style 12-in-1 Multi Purpose Tool |
| to teach me all about the pliers and the wire-cutter, the | | | | Kit, he relished the memories of his early days. |
| flat-blade knife and the can opener, pa got me a new | | | | |