ost his patience with him, because he would not use the stairs. He would always prefer to wait for the lift. So he sent a note home that said "Please teach your son to walk up stairs; he is holding up class". In result his parents now tried to encourage him to play outdoor sports, but he had absolutely no coordination. He tried tennis, but he played very badly, he seemed to have distaste for doing anything badly. However, there was one sport that he took to become an expert at, which was sailing. The family bought a holiday home at Bay Shore, Long Island. Where he slowly became one of the best yachtsman in the area.
             By the time he was eighteen his father had given him a twenty-eight-foot sloop, which he called Trimethy. Came from the name of a chemical compound, trimethylene dioxide. Oppenheimer and his brother sailed all over the area. As a teenager he developed a sense for danger. He liked to find some sort of weakness within himself, and over power, or overcome it. When a storm would come up he liked to go sailing out across the bay. He would ride the tide through the inlet at Fire Island, and take it rite out into the Atlantic.
             At about 14 years old his parents said he was much different than the average kid. He was polite, bookish, diligent, also very arrogant and snobbish. He had friends that he considered his best friends and was really not even that close to them. His studies, books, and whatever else he was interested in at the time came first. He was a very serious kid, and he hardly ever laughed (had absolutely no sense of humor). That year he had gone to camp he was harassed very badly. It got so bad that the kids there locked him in an Icehouse, naked overnight.
             Oppenheimer's last year of school was spent learning,
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