Typical...folks think they live forever too, no thoughts that if you do that every day for a living that the odds won't catch up with you. Around here you never see the young guys mowing grass and using blowers all day at a bunch of places everyday, all summer long wearing any kind of hearing protection either.
Washington palm, hate them. Constant high maintenance.
Royal palm, tree of tropical choice; self cleaning, you just don't want to be under it when a frond decides to drop,