Infancy
As stated in the previous chapter, Jimmie Bodie was born in Augusta, GA. When I asked him what his most vivid memory was, he proceeded to tell me the story of his birth. Of course, that wasn 't really his first memory, …show more content…
He and his younger brother were playing in the front yard of their house at 205 Hampton Avenue, Belvedere, SC. I had to mention his address because I was impressed that he still remembered it. Anyways, It was about 1951, and they were playing with his brother 's army tank. Jimmie decided to throw gasoline on it and set it on fire. He got in trouble for this, and never set an army tank on fire again. But the other things he did are quite amusing. His mother was a clean freak, and therefore their three story house was always clean, but their father was the disciplinarian. Jimmie got in trouble all the time. And I doubt it was solely because of their strict father. One of his neighbors had chickens, and they didn 't really like the neighbor boy. One day Jimmie shot the windows out of their neighbor 's house, and also killed one of their chickens. Although it may seem like all that Jimmie did was get in trouble, he did attend school in the public school system. This was fun to hear about because I knew of all the schools he had attended. His favorite gift as a child was a steel pointed bow and arrow. Of course, he got in trouble with this too. There was another boy who lived further down the street, and one day when he was over Jimmie tied him to the yard to keep him from going home. Then he shot the arrow up into the air multiple times trying to land it on the boy. He never did, but he still got in pretty big trouble for that