Article 50 simply states:
1. Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements.
2. A Member State which decides to withdraw shall notify the European Council of its intention.

In lay men's terms: UK: we are going to leave. EU: sorry to hear that. Goodbye.

Asking is done by a country to admitted as a member. Once admitted it is up to the member to stay or leave on any moment.
That decision is not open to negotiation, it is unilaterely taken by the leaving member.

As you may find, the EU has never asked the UK to stay, nor has it delayed it's decisions to prolongue the UK membership. You did that yourself.

Sorry, I was being facetious!
Although...

Also no I didn't!

No you were not. You were just wrong about the position the UK is in. Most of your negotiators made that same mistake.

Yes, I was, it was a "tongue in cheek" post. Given that Boris has no idea what he's doing.
I won't argue about it, I thought we were on the same side, but, heyho!

Sorry, humour of a level too high for my grasp of english

You're forgiven, if you tell me the requirements for claiming asylum in Holland...

...just in case...