AIBU to ask you to explain missing ironing board

[Purrrplexed]

Hi,

This may seem trivial to some but it has totally freaked me out to the extent I am spending the night with friends. Please help me see reason!

Yesterday, I had a meeting which required a more formal outfit that was nice and crisp. I have an ironing board which is rarely used but ha ALWAYS been placed in the coat cupboard in my corridor by the front door. However, when I went to retrieve it yesterday it was NOWHERE TO BE SEEN. I am disturbed as I can come up with no logical explanation as to why it was missing. The last time I used it was 3 ish weeks ago.

• I live on my own in C. London
• My visitors arrive on foot, tube etc
• I would notice if they walked off with the ironing board- it is 100% not in the flat.
• Why steal a rarely used ironing board

-I live in a secure building with the concierge (until 7 pm)

AIBU to ask you to please explain this. I'm really unnerved. Am I crazy? What would your natural reaction to this be?

Erm...... are you looking in the right flat?

Def have it, could probably find the confirmation email from Amazon.

Fwb wears scrubs for work and mostly trackies around the flat

Behind a door?
In a wardrobe?
Tucked in a small space such as in between the fridge and a wall?
Being used as a table?

Fwb wears scrubs for work and mostly trackies around the flat

Did he seem particularly, um, pleased to see you at any point?

Sorry to the poster dreaming about ironing boards!

Do you use both your bathrooms? The reason I ask is because if you only use your en suite & not the main bathroom, you may have accidentally put it in the spare bathroom by mistake.
Though I think ThanksForAllTheFish is right, you've slipped into a parallel universe or another dimension (see string theory)

If it's not in the flat then you've put it outside the front door. Maybe answered door or moved it whilst clearing out cupboard/hoovering then shut the door and forgot about it. Ask the 3 neighbours on your floor if they've seen it

The main bathroom is only used by visitors. I never use it (maybe three times since living here).

The other bedroom is completely empty except for a useless henry hoover.

My friend/flatmate lived here for a total of 2 weeks before moving jobs.

I can't stress how barren this flat is. There is probably 4 times the amount of storage that I need. This is my first proper flat so I haven't accumulated much stuff yet.

There's a double cupboard!!! See my double cupboard theory, see my theory, see my theory!!!!!! Do I win?

(Sorry, getting a bit excited.)

Is it attached to your tit? That's where I found DD1 when she was a baby

PhilomenaButterfly, I just spat my tea out laughing at this comment!!

I reckon your ironing board has eloped with my DD's waterproof over trousers, which have equally inexplicably vanished.

someone with a key has removed it. Someone without a key has removed it. You have removed it and forgotten or you sleepwalked it away. Speak to the letting agent. See if they've allowed someone in.

^This

Because it didn't walk out by itself.
And because it didn't, that means someone has stolen it so I'd talk to the police and try and get a crime reference number. They're not going to be keen, but you should register that something's not right with them.

It is hanging on the back of a door. Or you have a storage bed and have forgotten that you put it there (the lift up top type) or you put it outside and someone took it out to the bins.

But the parallel universe and Narnia theories are also good contenders. Mine is just the holder for clean washing....

PrincessConsuela it did actually happen! DM and DSF PTSL! 😂

The police would piss themselves!

I think the most likely scenario that has been put forward is that I may have mindlessly placed the ironing board outside my front door
Don't start gaslighting yourself!

If you're being honest with us about this OP, then somebody HAS been in your flat.
Somebody HAS accessed/copied your key codes and your door key.

Key - estate agents have a spare key and they're not going to necessarily know if a theif has 'borowed' it....and if they do they're hardly going to admit to that without you providing hard proof.
Key codes - anybody standing near you when you punch them in can see what they are....pinhole cameras capture pin codes on hacked ATM machines so it can be easily done with your system.

If your flat is bare maybe they stole the only thing they needed/worth stealing?
Or they could just be wanting to mess with your head because some sick gits get off on that.

Stranger things have happened OP and they don't need to make sense.
When i moved into my old flat i left a bag full of scouring pads and some half full bottles of cleaning stuff in the kitchen.
I returned the next day to find them missing along with the filthy deep fat fryer left by the previous tenant.
A neighbor had seen the 'gas man' entering the flat....

Estate agents swore blind they had not given anyone access and that the previous tenant had returned the keys.
I had to change my locks to feel secure - i didn't tell or give estate agents the spare key.
Broke the 'rule' but lived there 8 years feeling much safer.

I'd talk to the police and try and get a crime reference number. They're not going to be keen, but you should register that something's not right with them

Please don't involve the police, that's batshit.

🏄‍♀️ place marking. Good luck op, I hope you get this issue ironed out x

When you talk about key codes do you have a key safe? Or are you talking about something more upmarket? I can crack key most safes in under 3 mins. They're very insecure.

Did you have a bad back and put it under your mattress?

Under the bed?

Following :)

I think Prince Phillip has borrowed it