VFR Flight Following -- What's going on here?

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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How would *you* have handled it?

What I do when this happens is to stay on the freq. an wait until
some airliner overhead talks to the controller (be it Center or
Approach). Snip

Nowadays make a call on 121.5. There's a million aircraft listening
there these days. Some aircraft will hear you and relay the message.

Thanks for the suggestion. Is that considered a legitimate use of
121.5? I have been under the impression that 121.5 was reserved for
emergencies only.
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Well ATC thought it was enough of an emergency to send the airport manager
out to find you. I think a 10 sec message on GUARD would be better than the
wasted effort which could hav easily turned into a full out SAR call out.