But I thought borrow meant to keep eternaly until I remember to buy my own?!?
Kidding.
But seriously, I have a ticker-tape forming in my mind of things that have been ‘borrowed’ and not returned or returned filthy and broken. Boo.
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I used to board at a barn where I was good friends with the barn owner. She would regularly go into my locker and use what she wanted and I’d find it discarded out in the arena (side reins), crumpled and soaking wet in a corner (cooler), spare reins that were found broken, etc. We are not friends anymore.
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All of this is why - when I boarded - I bought a bright blue longe whip.
The black ones all seemed to learn to walk 
& used indelible sharpie to initial everything.
Still have the whip, faded blue now & a scraper with my long-gone TB’s name on it 
I don’t get the Boarding Ethic of:
“What’s mine is mine & what’s yours is also mine”
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The same reason I got to really like lead ropes with a bull snap. Most people hate them, so they don’t take your lead rope because it has that evil bull snap on it.
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I also am a big proponent of sharpie’ing my horses or my name on everything. However, it didn’t stop one particularly ‘enterprising’ teen from stealing my fleece half pad, crossing out my horse’s name and writing her mount’s name on it! The gall is astounding.
Fortunately other boarders recognized it as mine and I was able to get it back…. But why steal it? It’s like co-workers who eat someone else’s lunch out the the break room fridge. I just don’t get it.
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I’m so type A when it comes to how stuff is hung, where it’s hung, how it’s organized - that I can instantly tell when someone has used my stuff.
Good thing most of the boarders wouldn’t know what a chambon/vienna reins/etc. was if it hit them in the face else I’m sure I’d have much more of a problem.
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So… You wouldn’t notice the crossed-out name?
Or, you would & then think “Silly me! That’s not Dobbin’s, it has Fluffy’s name on it,” 
This is why the School system is broken
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Gall x 1000. I had a girl when I was at Potomac Horse Center steal one of my really nice brushes and scratched her name into the leather backing. When I confronted her about it, she said “well it has my name on it.” I just rolled my eyes and took it back.
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Haha she was a very spoiled high school senior who went to a private Christian school and duped her parents into thinking she could do no wrong. Total entitled brat on a saint of a packer.
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We ahve had several incidents of people using other’s stuff without permission. And not smart enough to put stirrups back where they were, clean stuff, etc. Our B/O is installing cameras.
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Not only does my tack trunk have a lock, most of my stuff has a name plate or tag on it. The exception is pony’s harness that won’t fit anything else. Funky tack helps. My work bridle has a yellow and red browband. 
The trainer and instructor go at it periodically because the instructor has a habit of grabbing the most expensive tack for the lesson horses. Her husband is just as bad. One day he was going to turn a horse out in my leather halter. I yelled NO! across the barn before he did. Funny, he didn’t grab his leather halter for the old mare.
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OP - you absolutely did the right thing. I was at a place where the BO helped herself to a bit/bridle I wasn’t using and when I chose to leave the barn got miffed I asked for it. LOL. I mean to ask for my OWN stuff back. Sheesh.
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yeah. My sister had some equipment ‘liberated’ by the local BNT…
In hindside, probably a good thing it went missing, but still. There is something wrong woth people who lack this basic boundary: If it ain’t yours, don’t touch it.
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