HotelTango: "Working 5 years with ATC" means exactly that. I was never a controller but I spent 50 years working in communications, 5 years of which were spent with ATC. During that time, I met and worked with many controllers of various nationalities and found some of them to be nice, even tempered people. Others I found to be prima donnas who appeared able only to communicate with themselves with a "I am a controller and second only to God" attitude.
(We haven't met, have we?)
My post served to highlight only how communications really are and implied no criticism of either the pilot or ATC. The approach controller sounded like a really helpful and knowledgeable bloke (ignoring the fuel weight error). The tower controller had not been informed fully of what was happening and it would have made his life easier if the controller handing off to him had made sure he had all the facts at the time.