Applicable to all genders, orientations, and all walks of life.
The reasons behind me asking you on a date:
1. You make me smile like an idiot and struggle to form a coherent sentence when you are next to me.
2. You say/do things that show that you care for me.
3. You are an awesome person, and I want to be a selfish bugger who just wants to keep you to myself
4. I think that you and I would be a fantastic super-duper couple that breaks all sorts of limits.
5. I think you are a keeper and I don't want to lose you to another who had the guts/foolhardiness to ask you first.
Reasons why I do want to ask you on a date but never did:
1. I'm shy and I have trouble expressing my feelings to you.
2. I have no trouble expressing my feelings but doing so would make me look like a fool.
3. I have an inferiority complex and I just... see you as being out of my league.
4. I know you are not wanting to date and/or you have much on your plate at the moment, so I don't want to become a liability that prevents you from achieving your dreams.
5. I have enough rejection in this world already and having one from you would shatter my tiny heart.