It’s a classic bowling alley ruse – the young, wide-eyed kid approaches the claw machine with a blend of refreshing optimism and ill-timed naïveté.
Deep down, he truly believes he has a great chance to win that stuffed hedgehog he so desperately needs. He’s studied the machine, he’s played it before and he’s envisioned this moment countless times in his head. Falling just short the other day doesn’t deter him in the slightest. This is his time.
But the claw has other ideas. The claw is crafty, rigid, uncompromising. All it needs is the slightest slip-up from the young boy to clench its unforgiving fist like a Venus fly trap.