Just having a little fun

I don't suppose most of you will find this funny, but I sure did.

It was April 1st, you know, anyway one of the services we provide is to call "traffic" for aircraft since most of the midairs occur between an IFR aircraft and VFR aircraft. Anyway, QK was working one of the high sectors, no VFR traffic up there, and mostly commercial airliners.

She gets this idea in her head, but doesn't follow through on the frequency. Probably a good thing.

She tells me about it on our next break.

Here's how it goes:
She's going to call traffic to two aircraft, "Northwest one-twenty-one, traffic, twelve o'clock, eight miles, opposite direction, flight level three-five-zero."

"United six-forty-three, traffic, twelve o'clock, eight miles, opposite direction, flight level three-five-zero."

Then she'd give them a minute to realize she's just told them they're both at the same altitude, and heading straight for each other.

Then she'll key up and say "April Fool's".

So maybe I'm the only one laughing here, but it is funny.