SB BB go all in blind

i think I made a mistake here. down to last 16 or 17 in a live tournament, 9 or 10 get paid. I had I think about 8 or 9 BBs. The guy to my right had 4 or 5 BBs so we are both short stacks.

I'm on the BB and he says if it gets folded round to us shall we go all in blind? I decided too quickly really, I was thinking that with his stack he pretty much has to go all in with any two cards. If he was going AI anyway I wanted the chance to fold if I had some real crappy hand although my calling range would be very wide. So I said no and he actually passed his hand, he must have had some terrible cards cos he said phew I'm glad you said no.

But thinking about it now a lot the point of pushing ATC here is Fold Equity. If I agree to call blind he has none. We are taking a true 50/50 gamble.

If he had say 88 and showed me his cards and I had AK I would have called so what am I doing turning his offer down here? The silly thing is that if he had asked me to do it on the first hand of the comp I would have probaby agreed to it but when I'm desperate for chips I say no.