Well I took onboard your comment re "voyeuristic" this weekend and asked for FIS. Now the thing with the approach/radar frequency at the airfield I fly from is that during the weekends on a nice sunny day it is extremely busy. And I mean extremely busy. Sometimes you can call up and be told to "standby I will get back to you your number 3 or 4 waiting". No fault of the controllers its just very busy and a VFR C152 is pretty low on the list of priorities.
So I called up and asked for FIS and was they were only able to offer "very limited FIS due controller workload and traffic density". The next time we spoke was when I called for rejoin an hour later.
So in fact I got very little if any benefit at all from at all, and just took up 30 seconds of radio time that should have been better used elsewhere.