Getting Places

Is it just my kids? Is it like this for everyone?
This is what happens when we go swimming. Oldest child does not get lessons since he is already on the swim team and practices there. The other three get lessons. Prior to leaving the house the three about to have swim lessons children are instructed to put on bathing suits and then put their clothes back on, on top of the bathing suits. I have found this minimizes the risk of forgetting bathing suits for the swim lesson ( not handy).
Unfortunately this technique has the side effect of also allowing for greater potential to accidentally wear underwear under the bathing suit. This is often not discovered until after the swim lesson when some one or other begins bemoaning having wet underwear. I tend not to catch on, assuring them that they do not have wet underwear, they are wearing bathing suits. Only when they undress do I realize, once again, why the wet underwear complaint has been filed. Do not wear underwear under your bathing suit.
So anyway, my plan is I get all the kids ready before we leave the house. We drive to the pool. I get my ID ready before we charge out of the car. We stumble through the parking lot wearing flip flops, no matter what the weather , because if you can swim you can wear flip flops. We go into the family changing room and the three kids remove the outer layers of clothing. I hand them goggles, we go meet the swim teachers.
During the lessons I have oldest child with me and we walk away from the pool area. If I am in the vicinity of the pool then child number 2 can't swim. So I need to be out of sight. There are chairs near the gym, in case anyone wants to hang out and gawk. So we sit there as child #1 pretends to get some homework tackled. What actually happens is he fidgets and picks at imaginary threads, asks inane questions, realizes he does not have a pencil. The forgotten pencil is a familiar theme and he has not quite figured out that this technique does not in fact mean he has escaped his obligations. What he does have to do is march himself up to the reception desk at the gym and ask to borrow one. That takes a good 20 minutes. Then he has to get readjusted in his chair and examine a shoelace for a while. Right about then is when he has all sorts of burning questions about eucalyptus trainers. Yes, eucalyptus. Just like what I have at home. I work out using a eucalyptus.
Oh look, he answered one question on his homework sheet and its time to grab towels and get the other 3 from their lessons. 3 out of the pool and into the locker room. There they wander about in varying states of undress for a while since I've managed to teach my children pretty much nothing about privacy. Getting dressed apparently requires a great deal of wandering about and dropping underwear onto the wet floor and being unable to fit your head through an arm hole.
When the 3 swimmers are finally ready I somehow find myself behaving in a way that implies I think I can just walk on out the door at this point. Of course I can't. Child #1, who did not even swim is not ready. His coat sleeve is inside out and his shoes are mysteriously off.
Really? Does this happen with other people's kids?