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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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zzzzz · 20/02/2019 20:45

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NicoAndTheNiners · 20/02/2019 20:45

Is there some sort of thin crack it could have fallen over sideways and into the crack? and into another universe

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Purrrplexed · 20/02/2019 20:45

I spent 1 hour looking in my smallish flat. Guys I've been thorough.

I've moved every piece of furniture. I iron in the corridor (when I;m forced to) and place it back into the cupboard which is basically empty. The flat is well proportioned so it is very open and cavernous- no nooks and crannies.

Frogzlegz No to all your q's

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Bayleyf · 20/02/2019 20:46

Look behind all the doors again.

I once lost a favourite coat by handing it on a door then shutting it. I 100% searched behind it, but you get blind to things you see all the time so didn't notice it.

NicoAndTheNiners · 20/02/2019 20:46

Are you sure it's not out in plain sight with a load of clutter on it so you've mistaken it for a shelving unit or narrow table?

SlangBack · 20/02/2019 20:47

Behind the sofa?

Original poster
Purrrplexed · 20/02/2019 20:47

NicoAndTheNiners that is the least terrifying explanation as far as I am concerned.

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Purrrplexed · 20/02/2019 20:48

My flat is not cluttered! it is borderline bare

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SmileEachDay · 20/02/2019 20:49

On your head? That’s where my sunglasses were earlier.

onemorego2019 · 20/02/2019 20:50

Behind the curtains?

visitorthedog · 20/02/2019 20:50

Under the bed or the sofa?

DisrespectfulAdultFemale · 20/02/2019 20:50

Sorry, OP. I've been meaning to return it but have been madly busy at work. I'll just pop round this weekend to put it back.

Insomnibrat · 20/02/2019 20:50

YES! This very thing happened to me, with an ironing board! I live alone rurally in Lancashire and mine disappeared some 6 months ago.
I've been out and bought a new one, asked everyone I know, insisted on checking my Mother's to make sure she hadn't commandeered-it... nothing. Gone.

It never calls, never writes. Perhaps they've gone off to colonise an island somewhere.....Fucked if I know.
I even checked the attic. Nada.

visitorthedog · 20/02/2019 20:52

Do you surf?

PeterPiperPickedWrong · 20/02/2019 20:52

What colour is it? Has it blended into the background of the cupboard? Go take a photo of the cupboard it’s generally in and we will see if we can spot it. It has to be in there somewhere!

Iloveacurry · 20/02/2019 20:53

Weird. That would annoy me.

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Purrrplexed · 20/02/2019 20:53

V. similar kitchen to my own (neighbour's flat taken off Rightmove) My kitchen is this open and bare. Please explain where it is hiding.

AIBU to ask you to explain missing ironing board
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BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 20/02/2019 20:53

It never calls, never writes
Grin

NicoAndTheNiners · 20/02/2019 20:53

Someone on MN years ago came home to find their kettle missing. Iirc their MIL had been round and borrowed it.

saoirse31 · 20/02/2019 20:54

Does concierge have key?

Any chance family called in when you're out?

NicoAndTheNiners · 20/02/2019 20:54

It's been sucked up by that extractor fan.

3out · 20/02/2019 20:55

Have you had anyone over in the last three weeks? I reckon a friend has broken it and smuggled it out the front door whilst you were having a pee.

Original poster
Purrrplexed · 20/02/2019 20:56

almost identical

AIBU to ask you to explain missing ironing board
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NicoAndTheNiners · 20/02/2019 20:56

Take everything out the cupboard!

SheSaidNoFuckThat · 20/02/2019 20:56

You binned it when having a mad "Marie Kondo" moment - it didn't give you joy. You somehow have forgotten you did it 🤷🏻‍♀️😂