"That would be most outstanding!" Anyone explaining where they were would be excellent to Ted. So he too closed his journal and swooped up his box. Like his watch, you never knew when this stuff would be important. So he wasn't taking any chances.
But then the teenager thought about it and opened his journal again. "The babe Elliot said there was a map.." Flipping to that page, Ted managed a baby air guitar while holding on to everything. "To the gym, Dan!"
Ted might not have been terribly brilliant, but at least he was pretty okay with heading into strange situations without too much trepidation. Or too many questions.