Another MATZ question
The other day I was flying around deliberately way above the top of the local MATZs, and not talking to the military controllers (largely because I didn't have to).
However the ATC unit I was talking to called me up, and gave me a squawk for the MATZ, as the military wanted to separate me from some of their traffic (which I saw a couple of minutes later, way below me), and also gave me a "not below ..." instruction. (Instruction?? When receiving a flight information service in the open FIR?? - I must have misheard, they must have been passing on a request from the military, surely. I obeyed it anyway, of course.)
So, seeing as I was flying near and over active MATZs on a weekday, even though I had no intention of penetrating the MATZ, should I have been less lazy and talked to them anyway? What do you do?