People involved in critical aviation professions
should know better....and thank God most of them DO!
You save this kind of thing for later.
Dudley Henriques

Agreed. While I was surprised that I did not here "Cessna 1234, call the
tower on the telephone after parking", I was slightly relieved, because this
controller was busy enough at the time. I wouldn't have wanted him
distracted even further. I think it could have been handled more
professionally, perhaps "Cessna 1234, please report to or call the tower on
the telephone at 14:00Z" or when ever he had assistance available or his
shift changed.

There was a third lecture to a pilot directly behind me during taxi for not
reading back taxi and hold short instructions. Understandably another
dangerous situation, but rather than reading the guy the riot act, he could
have simply said "Piper1234, Readback of all taxi and hold short
instructions is mandatory" But he went on and on about how you just can't
say "Roger".

Before anybody jumps on me, I'll correct my position report in the original
post to "traffic 9:00" not 3:00.

Jim