Artie....why wait??
The point I was making was that he told ATC they had 60 seconds to tell him over the frequency what was going on. They gave him a telephone number to ring and promised to tell him what was going on.
Rather than sitting there heroically drumming his fingers for 60 seconds, he could have telephoned the number and got the information he needed.
In fact, it would have taken less than 60 second to dial the number, so his "solution" took longer. Indeed - why wait??