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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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EnglishRose13 · 20/02/2019 23:09

I really hope this doesn't turn out like that bastard candle/Hotel Chocolat thread which had me hooked but was the biggest anticlimax ever.

If it does OP, you shall be shunned.

PleaseComeBackSafe · 20/02/2019 23:09

I am dying at suggestions like on top of your head and is it in your hand!

ALargeGinPlease · 20/02/2019 23:17

Is it under the pile of ironing?

tfifridayatlast · 20/02/2019 23:20

I'm really good at finding things. Like I always find shit that's been lost forever.
I need to know where it is!!!!
I wish I lived close by

Bahhhhhumbug · 20/02/2019 23:51

I once lost a large brass padlock off our side gate. I'd unlocked it and walked three feet to our back door and hung the key inside. I had literally walked about six foot altogether and l searched every inch, no drains etc it could've fallen down. Drove me to despair it did it was so ridiculous that a large brass padlock could just vanish in about six foot of space. Had to give up in the end but god it bugged me.
One day about a year later dh was up on the flat roof to repair it and there it was. We worked out l must've been throwing some bird food up there at same time as unlocking and taking off the padlock and lve obviously thrown the padlock up there with it.

JessieMcJessie · 20/02/2019 23:56

Ha ha that’s it OP- you absent-mindedly threw the ironing board out of the window! Are there any dead passers-by in the street below?

Bahhhhhumbug · 21/02/2019 00:00

Haha Jessie yes that's it she's thrown it out the window with a handful of bird seed. I've cracked it Am dying here at 'dead passers by' Grin

Fishwifecalling · 21/02/2019 00:16

It was obviously more concerned with the ironing bored part of its name and gone off for some excitement.

Can you check with the management company over who might have access to spare keys?

StarbucksSmarterSister · 21/02/2019 00:39

Go and buy a new one, the more expensive the better. Throw away the receipt.

Then, and only then, will you find your missing one.

DailyBaileys · 21/02/2019 00:42

I'd be really freaked, too OP.
I believe you have looked and it is not there.
Please answer a few questions--
Please - really answer these:

It seems you have a private key code -- this is a code you set yourself, and have told no one, nor have it written down anywhere, correct?

You have had no maintenance or tradesmen in your home during this time, correct?
Grocery deliveries?

Have you assertained that there has been no maintenance (emergency or otherwise) anywhere in the building (not just your own flat), since you last used the ironing board?
They should have informed you of any building maintenance, but do inquire, to be sure.

These next two Qs are actually important:
Did you put the board away in the cupboard after you last used it, before you left for the day?
Or, was it still standing, when you went out the door?

Even if it was standing out when you left, but then not there when you returned home, you may not have realised it went missing from that first day, since it is not usually there, anyway. (Or even for a few subsequent days, for that matter.) You'd've assumed it was in the cupboard.

Any creepy men (or women) that you've noticed lately? Anyone who gives you even the slightest twinge of yuck factor?

The concierge staff concerns be a bit.

And change the keycode! (If you haven't already.)
Everyone seems to think this is funny, and it would be, if it were simply misplaced; but am a bit creeped out for you, OP.

user1473878824 · 21/02/2019 00:57

Sorry, no one delivering your groceries is going to come in and steal your ironing board.

SleepWarrior · 21/02/2019 01:09

I was going to suggest you put it out the front door instead of the cupboard but see its already been mentioned. It's the sort of thing I might do if I was distracted when putting it away (especially if on the phone - I do all sorts of silly things without realising then).

ImNotKitten · 21/02/2019 01:18

Does your front door lock when you close it or do you need to lock it separately with a key?

AGnu · 21/02/2019 01:55

This entire thread is clearly one long stealth boast about OP's marvellous tidying skills. Congrats on having such a perfectly spotless flat... Unfortunately, your ironing board got lonely & went in search of some company. Don't you know you have to keep them in a cupboard full of other random stuff you never actually use?! They get sad & lonely otherwise! Poor lonely ironing board!

I would've stayed in the flat but barricaded myself in & sat all night in a chair staring at the door.

TinselAndKnickers · 21/02/2019 01:56

Placemarking - I HAVE to know the outcome! I can't go through another thread like the chocolate bar one Grin hoping you've just been silly OP and nobody has come into the flat. Thanks

hellenbackagen · 21/02/2019 02:06

Op are you certain it's not in the fat just covered by something? Coats? Lunchboxes and stuff?

Ironing boards don't t vanish! It's either there somewhere or someone borrowed it while you were drunk

7salmonswimming · 21/02/2019 02:17

Honestly, from what you’re saying, I think there’s something nefarious going on.

I reckon your LL isn’t the only person with a key, if there’s a concierge. I would almost expect someone other than the letting agent to have a key in case you were a shitty tenant. He does live in China, after all.

The fact they took an ironing board means they’re probably no mire than a thief (as in, not a peeping Tom, for example).

Can you access the CCTV footage? If it’s mysteriously missing for the whole of the last three weeks, or a specific day, I think your answer will be a building employee. Sorry.

JessieMcJessie · 21/02/2019 02:18

That’s it. Front door next to cupboard. OP distracted thinking about her big meeting, opens front door instead of cupboard door and puts ironing board outside instead of in cupboard. Someone takes it as they think it has been put outside in hall to be disposed of.

halfwitpicker · 21/02/2019 02:27

How bizarre

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 21/02/2019 02:27

Well I'm intrigued!

So there is a letting agent and a concierge, is that right? And they both have keys to your flat too? I would have to talk to them to ask them if they know what the hell is going on.

I don't blame you for being freaked out, that is very strange indeed, and very disconcerting to think that someone has invaded your home without your knowledge.

Really hope there is a simple and non-freaky reason behind this.

cantfindausername2 · 21/02/2019 02:31

This will sound strange, but ask for it back next time your home. Then go about your business and it will turn up somewhere obvious. Happens to me sometimes Smile

DailyBaileys · 21/02/2019 02:40

@user1473878824
I agree, and I didn't suggest that.
I had another reason for asking.

MissLanesAmericanCousin · 21/02/2019 02:52

The cubbies took it.

Sorry, couldn't resist! Grin

I have no relevant advice, sorry.

But, I do hope you find it.

Good luck! Smile

LaurenOrdering · 21/02/2019 02:52

Are you sure you didn't take the ironing board into the bedroom (obviously not for romantic reasons), ironed your shirt, put the iron back where it belongs but for some inexplicable reason put the ironing board down the back/side/underneath/top of the wardrobe?
Then did you go out for the night, have a few drinks & completely forget about the ironing board?
Or did your sister/brother/friend borrow it & you've forgotten?

Try the St Anthony thing as it usually works 9 out of 10 of the times.(Don't forget to say thank you to St Anthony after ironing board turns up.)

CSIblonde · 21/02/2019 03:11

Do you leave your door on latch when putting the rubbish out or do it by accident ever? I left my door&communal door latched by accident once. Came back from corner shop to find package inside my flat . Also to those saying why steal an ironing board, Police told my ex Junkies are opportunistic & will take anything they can sell. (They stole all his clothes & dirty laundry as well as everything portable). Maybe someone got in but then got scared off before they could take more?