To counter that, i've sat at the hold burning 10kg of fuel a minute waiting on some puddle jumper make his approach and landing. I've also been sat on the runway waiting to go while some plonker flies straight through the control zone, talking to noone, across our departure route.
As someone mentioned earlier, don't go near any of these places if you are not comfortable with your RT. Study the charts beforehand to familiarise yourself with VRPs etc
If you are competent when you check in with APP/Radar then they'll give you a good service. If you bumble around and just readback ROGER to everything ATC transmit they probably won't even let you enter the zone.
My tuppence, go to Edinburgh
