"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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Just say no. You're operating VFR in Class E airspace, ATC has no
authority
to issue a route or heading to you and no reason to do so either.

Traffic avoidance maybe?
Isn't that one of the reasons you are requesting flight following for?

Also, a slight change of course may make his job easier.

What is the point of asking for flight following if you don't want to do
what ATC recommends?

I would agree that if you get a crazy instruction from ATC which will take
you off course by a lot, I would tell him that I don't want to fly that, but
I don't see the point of not collaborating with ATC if the instructions are
reasonable.