Climb up to 14,000 feet right in front of the runway?

Everything I fly is GA, so every flight is VFR - regardless of the weather. I learned to do this on day one last year when ATC tried to tell me to climb and maintain FL190 in a C172. I tried one more time a bit later. Flying into KMYR, ATC told me to expect vectors to ILS 36. It then proceeded to send me out over the Atlantic, then forgot I existed. I was nearly 50 miles out to sea before I decided to cancel IFR and headed back on my own. I won’t bother with anything more than Flight Following until they get the rest of it fixed.

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