Paris Airport Revealed As World’s Longest Running Prank

Undermining decades of evidence regarding their lack of humor and the inefficiencies of their labor systems, The French revealed today that Charles De Gaulle airport is actually an intricately planned decades-long prank on foreigners.

When non-French have entered the airport, they’ve been ushered into lines made to go almost in reverse for hours, all for the sake of this joke.

Unions Concerned About Efficiency and Maintaining Full Effort

The hardest part of getting the prank moving was getting the many different unions involved to agree. “We take great pride in our efficiency and dedication to hard work!” said union president Jacques Laroque. “To do otherwise, it took us a while to even comprehend! Then they said, ‘Act like Jerry Lewis’, and we understood it instantly!'”

“We were inspired by Samuel Beckett, when he was living here in the France,” revealed French Ministry of Culture Lead Jeanne Sauvage. “He said if we want to truly bask in the absurd, we should feed the preconceived notions that others have about us. There is no better place to do that then at the entry point to the country, CDG airport.

The day after the prank was revealed, the airport easily handled triple the usual number of flights. Every adult passenger was handed a glass of wine, a mistress, and a false sense of superiority as they sped through security lines in seconds. Union workers could be seen sweating from all the assistance they were proactively providing, in perfect non-condescending English and German.