"Sure. But what if she says no? Then I have to walk around the inn being all like 'oh hey girl I asked out who totally rejected me. This isn't awkward at all'. Except it'd be totally awkward." Ned was pretty sure on that. "It'd be like me asking Betty out, her inevitably laughing in my face, and then having to show up for decathlon practice." Which was one of the reasons Ned never got the nerve to ask Betty out back home.