If you want to understand thermodynamics, a good thing to do is to grow up in a house with seven cats. At some point, you will be visited by a relative who is allergic to little Snowball and her minions and this will require you to sequester the little dander factories in the bathroom until your Dad and Uncle Charlie head out to get a beer. If you then open the bathroom door, a stream of feline hell spawn will shoot by you to do wind sprints in the dining room leaving you to clean up rolls of shredded toilet paper.
The process of moving cats from bathroom to house is easy, but its reverse–moving cats from house to bathroom–is very difficult. When you open the door to a bathroom full of cats, they will naturally spread out across the house, finding their various favorite spots in no time. To reverse the process you’ll have to go around the house, pick each one up, bring it to the bathroom door, and then very deftly open, toss the cat in, and close the door before the other prisoners escape. This process is likely to take the better part of an afternoon.
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