It's different across the pond!
Lots and lots of municipal airports mix light aircraft and big jets. Gives a certain frisson when ATC asks you to expedite as you are tooling down the centre line in your Cessna, because there is a 737 right behind you....
Nevertheless some habits built up at an uncontrolled airfield can come in handy. Accept the instruction, AND verify! comes to mind. I did get told off at Ann Arbor, Michigan, after a long long solo flight from New Jersey in a clapped out 152 with a horrible overhead speaker. Thought ATC told me to cross the active, actually he had asked me to hold short.
I crossed. And was asked to please telephone the tower as soon as shut down. Said he, "I told you to hold short!" Said I, "I'm very sorry, I misunderstood. But I did look out carefully to make sure nobody was coming!!"