A: “I read a story that we saw briefly on the news about why those patio heaters are bad.”

N: “… they’re bad for the environment, right?!”

A: “Yeah, so it seems.”

N: “Y’know, if a teevee journalist stopped me on the street and asked if I thought patio heaters were releasing too much carbon, I would say Not really, this is worse — *parp*!”

(Not verbatim — it happened yesterday. Cannae remember it word for word.)

(The House uses a lot of patio heaters.)