"Is this a typical man thing or not?"
Only when an uncaring female allows her poor fella to leave and drive all that way without having checked his tickets for him before he went! It's clearly a sign of a wife who callously expects her unfortunate hubbie to have to do everything for himself, the heartless hussey!
We guys are not put on this earth to have to make crucial decisions like checking our travel documents when we have to go someplace, are we? Of course not, we have better things to do, like making sure we haven't lost the telly changer, or some other, similar emergency like that?
No, the menial tasks are for the females, that's their domain. Well, after all, why should the man of the house be expected to overtax himself, eh? No, you don't buy a dog and then bark yourself, do you?
Tut, tut, tut, tut, tut.