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AIBU to ask you to explain missing ironing board

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Purrrplexed · 20/02/2019 20:19

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?

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FindPrimeLorca · 21/02/2019 23:05

Atheists who spurn the superstitious ritual of praying to St Anthony may prefer, like us, to ask the Boggarts nicely to return the item hence taken. The Boggarts are very reliable at returning the vanished item, normally to the middle of an empty floor. OTOH they are, as I understand it, quite small, and I’m not sure they could manage to handle anything larger than a hardback book. An ironing board seems outside their scope.

Personally I’d go with the “accidentally left it outside the front door in a moment of distraction” theory. Only because I assume it wouldn’t fit in the fridge, which is where DH always looks for my mislaid phone, keys, glasses etc.

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Purrrplexed · 21/02/2019 23:11

I ordered the IB via Amazon (have emails to show this)

I have since chucked the empty TV box. The only thing contained within the cupboard now is my ex's bike.

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Mumsymumphy · 21/02/2019 23:12

Place marking.

I was reading this thread last night, kept scrolling through in the hope I'd see you post "Guess where I found it?!"

Thought about your ironing board today whilst I was ironing! How can an ironing board just disappear into thin air? It's bonkers!

I used mine once outside as a disposable BBQ stand, Grinwith the cover off of course. Needs must n all that. Could it be outside?

I do hope it turns up & that you post on here if/when it does.

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Purrrplexed · 21/02/2019 23:15

FindPrimeLorca Will have to ask my neighbours then. May take months as we hardly run into each other. Pretty sure I've not even met everyone on my floor despite having been here for almost a year and there only being 4 flats (including mine).

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MiniMum97 · 21/02/2019 23:15

If you are calling the police over your "stolen" ironing board, I'm calling them about our "stolen" Apple TV remote. Where the fuck do these things disappear to!

wafflyversatile · 21/02/2019 23:17

I'm now on team absent mindedly put it outside the door rather than the cupboard and someone helpfully took it to the bin. Or thought you didn't want it so had it for themself.

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Purrrplexed · 21/02/2019 23:23

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

I don't get it, am I being dense?

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Furiosa · 21/02/2019 23:45

Is this a new fangled way of selling a flat?

Photos
Location in building
Description ''cavernous''
Floor plan
Unobtrusive neighbours

How much is it going for?

Omzlas · 22/02/2019 00:15

Shameless placemarking

It would make your mattress firmer and supposedly help your bad back. People used doors and sheets of wood in the past

JustOneShadeOfGrey · 22/02/2019 00:27

Ex has tried to steal his bike back but decided the ironing board was much more fun?

FindPrimeLorca · 22/02/2019 00:38

You forgot to mention the sinister horror movie stalker ironing-board thief Furiosa. How could anyone resist?

ChesterGreySideboard · 22/02/2019 00:45

Did it break last time you used it and you’ve simply forgotten that you binned it?

DoctorDread · 22/02/2019 00:51

What a conundrum op. No suggestions but rooting for the safe return of your ironing board!

llangennith · 22/02/2019 00:53

I bet it's hiding in plain sight. I bet you've actually looked at it but not seen it. It's there somewhere.

barefaced · 22/02/2019 00:57

Get a camera!

Notmymonkeys · 22/02/2019 01:08

I lost ds2’s jacket recently. It’s very distinctive with a bright green lining and dinosaur spikes on the hood (he is four). We have two places we hang coats: a coat stand and a line of hooks on the wall.

Before Christmas I moved the stand to accommodate our tree, and whilst doing so took the opportunity to sort through the coats and various accumulated crap mixed amongst them. I put away our summer things, and rearranged the winter coats on the stand and hooks. I noticed ds’s jacket was missing. I have looked for it twice since then, on occasions when he needed something lighter than his winter coat. Nada.

Today it was far too mild for his thick coat, and his fleece was in the wash following an unfortunate hill-rolling incident yesterday. I thought I would have one last look for the jacket.

And there it was. Hanging on the end hook exactly where it was supposed to be, and where it had certainly been all along.

🤷🏻‍♀️

poldarkssecretlover · 22/02/2019 01:11

I once had my pile of ironing disappear. Turned out to be mil "helping". She even put my thongs folded neatly on the top. I nearly died. Obviously I don't wear thongs anymore because frankly nowadays my arse could swallow an ironing board.....

DemelzaPoldarksshinerrefiner · 22/02/2019 06:41

Those door codes locks may have more than one code set on them. Check out the make online. I wonder if one of the neighbours used to shag the landlord and knows another code. Or they have a services number on all locks to facilitate repairs calls etc by the concierges. If you have an old phone you can download an app to use it to record etc just “ask Jeeves “ 😂 ok then google it !

Exploration2018 · 22/02/2019 07:53

I also think
A) you or your fwb/guest absent mindedly put it outside the door. I wouldn't wait to bump into the neighbours, I would knock on their door and ask.
B) your fwb/guest has used it and left it in the spare room/bathroom.

Circe32 · 22/02/2019 07:58

Why do you iron in the corridor when you have several large rooms?

ALargeGinPlease · 22/02/2019 08:09

If your cupboard is big enough to store a bike, could the ironing board have fallen to the floor (flat) and the bike be on top of it. Perhaps you didn't notice it there as you were looking for an upright, leaning against a wall ironing board, not a flat, floorboard impersonating one.

ChesterGreySideboard · 22/02/2019 08:21

I dreamt about the sodding ironing board too last night.
It was behind the fridge.

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Purrrplexed · 22/02/2019 08:55

Why do you iron in the corridor when you have several large rooms?

The cupboard where I store my ironing board and iron is next to the washing machine and dryer. I tend to hang washing up in here as soon as it's dry (prevents creases/the need to iron). I'll only iron when I notice a work shirt is particularly bad- so it's not worth lugging the iron and bard down the long(ish) corridor for 1 item.

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SleepingIsOverrated · 22/02/2019 09:00

I'm so invested in this OP, I keep thinking about your ironing board...

Here's hoping you find it soon... and tell us all where it was hiding Grin

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Purrrplexed · 22/02/2019 09:01

I googles "St Anthony Lost Items' and found a little novena to recite. Watch this space.

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