June 03, 2008
Right-handed Richmond School Board member Keith West told reporters today that his attempts at signing his name with his left hand were unsuccessful and “felt a little funny.”
”It was really hard to do, all the letters came out really squiggly and looking like a baby wrote it,” the 7th District board member told reporters. “And I did the ‘S’ in my last name completely backwards.”
West said he got the idea to try using his opposite task-performing hand after observing a class of city fourth graders.
“I looked over and saw [nine-year-old] Alex [Hickox] doing it all goofily and laughing, and I knew I had to give it a shot,” West said. He then failed in his attempt to reverse climb a corkscrew slide on the playground during the class’ recess, but later found success in trading his apple for second-grader Rachel Costa’s Rice Krispies treat at lunch.
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