This story, which employs wordplay and a change of perspective, is sardonic and amusing. It’s funny that the spouse finds the blind man’s stick ticking annoying since, in a sense, he’s concentrating on a minor problem while neglecting the larger one.
The blind man flips the script on the husband’s complaint in the punchline, stating that if the husband had “put a rubber at the end of YOUR stick,” the scenario would have been avoided in the first place.
It gently criticizes the husband’s involvement in the incident, as he and the blind man are left to walk because the bus was too full of his huge family.
Because he failed to take the right precautions to avoid the situation, the husband’s “rubber” on his stick becomes a metaphor for his own accountability. The husband’s complaint gets turned back on him by the blind man’s unexpected and humorous reaction.
It’s a good example of humor when the solution to an issue is obvious, but the individual complaining is unaware of it.
