Pounding The Keyboard

       We were at the mall the other day, and me and my niece were whiling away the time inside a game area waiting for our companions. We were watching a cute chubby bespectacled teenager try her luck at the claw machine, she was already on her 14 th try,   I think, and my niece had given up on her.        “That machine is obviously fixed,” said my niece. “The end of the world has a better chance of happening today than on her getting that stuffed toy.”        I agreed with her, the machine was rigged and it was a common knowledge—but I told her that the teenager will most likely win on her 14 th or 15 th try, rigged machine or not.        “Naah!” exclaimed my niece,who was an engineering freshman. “Machine is fixed, it will only continue to break her heart.”        But the teenager did win on her 15 th try and finally hooked the Garfield stuffed toy she had been eyeing.        “Nice,” my niece smiled. “How did you guess she was going to win?”