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?

Ironing board archaeology society report here - clearing my late departed lovely old ma’s house. Her ironing board from 60s (?) is all heavy wood and what I think may be asbestos (being careful). Always refused suggestion of getting smaller/lighter one. Weighs a ton. No one would be able to stagger off with it !!!

4. It's all a dream

It’ll suddenly walk out of the shower. Bobby from Dallas reference for the young skitters amongst you lot. 😁

Is there a cleaner for the communal areas who has a cupboard where he/she might have put the ironing board if you'd absentmindedly put it outside your door? Or communal bin area where someone might have moved it to?
Curiouser and curiouser.....

Have you let someone borrow it? Have you had anyone in eg a meter reader, builder etc. I know it sounds funny but it would worry me as well. Does anyone have keys to your apartment.

You said there was a bookcase in the hall (I think) could you have propped the irining board up against the wall next to it and then it’s fallen over sideways through 90 degrees, sliding behind the bookcase ?

onemorego2019 that made me laugh hysterically!!! Sooo funny.
OP it's there somewhere...probably in the most obvious place. No one has stolen your IB

Could a neighbour have borrowed it and forgot to bring it back?

I lost 2 beds once! Never found them

letloose what???? Come on, tell the story....
I am now envisioning a completely furnished house somewhere, filled with the missing items listed on this thread.

Somebody waited until the concierge clocked off at 7 and then nicked it?

But weird - how can a thief be that desperate for an ironing board? Still, it takes all sorts.

Maybe the Good Ship Ironing Board has left to sail the world on Boaty McBoatface......

It's ghosts. 100%. It's always ghosts.

Nah but seriously OP, if you're entirely sure it's not in the flat, then it probably ended up in the hallway somehow and got nicked. People don't break into flats and steal ironing boards.

I lost a cheese grater once, one of those big 4 sided ones. It just vanished from the kitchen about 2 years ago and never returned. My theories are either I threw it in the bin absent mindedly one day or (more likely) aliens took it.

It'll be with the necklace I wanted to wear on my wedding day, DH's last phone and the top tier of my wedding cake.

Right, I've rtft - which is entirely unusual for me. I like to skim through and read OP updates - and I'm shamelessly placemarking because I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE IRONING BOARD!!!
Also OP. To save weeks and weeks of waiting to bump into your neighbours, write a note and stick it somewhere they will all see. That should speed up solving this mystery!!

PLEASE JUST PUT US ALL OUT OF OUR MISERY!!!

Oh also, I hope you're not still feeling queasy today

Olivers they need an ironing board in Crossy Road. They've already got a barbecue.

You know those "what would you do to be an annoying robber" people say things like poke holes in the flour, swap DVDs etc? Well someone has stolen your ironing board!

thatwhichwecallarose

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”

Exactly, this is what I wanted to say. 👍🏻🙌🏻🕵️‍♂️

OP, without wanting to seem like I’m haranguing a stranger on the internet 😉 I have to ask whether you really have looked everywhere, including the rooms you’re seldom in or that are most unlikely, or have you dismissed them as unlikely? Perhaps just scanned them from the door? Based purely on that you write several times “but why would I put it there” or similar. That sentiment is why my husband never finds anything he has misplaced I can tell you. 🙄

It’s seems unlikely since your flat is very bare of course. Mine isn’t but it’s small and I’ve often looked high and low for large items only to find them right in front of me just not where I expected them to be.

Dontcallmecharlotte When did you lose the top tier of your wedding cake?

The wedding cake one sounds like someone accidentally damaged it and just disposed of it rather than own up.

Maybe Boswell took it up the steps?

Sorry, someone had to.

But did it really have to be you. Steps of post office I seem to remember

are you meters in the same cupboard? Your concierge let people in to do a reading, they moved it - possibly outside the front door and then forgot to put it back. Then... someone else helped themselves to it, thought it was a fire hazard....
So, anyway - how did the meeting go with the non-crisp suit?

stayathomer

We were moving house and sorting out a cupboard which housed said cake. Thought it felt a bit light so opened it. Box and all packaging (several layers) was perfectly in tact so I know it wasn't DH - he can't even put the lid back on the butter dish straight et voila! Completely empty!