Tony wrote:
Don't you think "resume own navigation" meant you should do exactly
what you did? If you wanted to go thru their air space, you should have
made that explicit clearance request.

And what sort of clearance is required or available for class D
airspace for VFR pilots?


The controller obviously thought you were looking for traffic
advisories and the like, you didn't, as best I could tell, ask for more
than that.

Doesn't sound like that at all. There are other ways to refuse
radar service.