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?

Please tell me you found it?

I don't think it has appeared?

@Purrrplexed - did it ever turn up?

How to iron without an ironing board

Damn, me too!!!

It’s metal. Gypsies picked it up for scrap.

This is insane

Those pictures of your neighbours are interesting as I see that they don't have an iron board either... Clearly something very odd is going on around where you live.

Any update on this OP?

update? Couldn’t find mine for a few minutes this morning and it reminded me of this thread

Has it reappeared yet?

I think about this ironing board every time I iron something (about three times a year)

@Purrrplexed

I saw something on tik tok the other day where kids (teenagers) in a European city are carrying their ironing boards with them on a night out, to use as a stand for drinks in the street. Made me think of this.

OP, please give us a happy ending!

I can’t believe the ironing board went missing SEVEN YEARS AGO and we still don’t know what happened to it.

Yes, it is a most unsatisfactory situation being left on a cliffhanger!

Will you quit your unhealthy obsession with a bloody ironing board? Why?

Sick and tired of message after message after message after message.

This has reached a sinister level and appropriate steps will now be utilised.

Huh????

Step away from the message board…no one here is forcing you to open the thread. The ‘hide thread’ option exists!

Perhaps we should have a sweepstake for when it returns?

I reckon things fall into another dimension/universe as DH lost a book he was reading just a normal David Balducci thriller.
Looked everywhere in the house pulled beds, sofas even wardrobes out, nothing.
4 years later we're moving house, the removal men lift the big sofa & DH's lost book is right there, looking like it hadn't been anywhere else, ever 🤷‍♀️

Wasn't there a thread about someone's ironing board going missing a few years back? What is with these ironing boards?!

😂😂😂

Along with the Christmas tree that simply vanished from my flat about 20 years ago!

OP has been missing for years. Most likely her artisanal ironing board wind chime dropped onto her head from the ceiling of her poorly plastered new-build and she perished. May she rest in peace