This is what I’ve been thinking too.
Maybe this lady has a lot of general anxiety. Maybe she has PTSD from a past riding experience. Maybe she’s getting old and afraid of getting badly hurt.
Who knows? I think she would arouse my impatience, but also my sympathy.
I have seen lots of crossties in h/j and multi-use barns. Was at one that wanted you to single tie in the aisle. Until somebody tied to metal staff front and horse puled back and bent it! Virtually every boarding barn has had crossties in aisle. A lot of it is a space thing, so no grooming bays. You could groom and tack in the stall but most didnt have a tie ring or convenient places for tack. I have seen training barns - especially Saddlebred - that had crossties in the stall.
I like using crossties, or the washbay for a nervous horse. I like to leave the horse alone to chill in their stall with no tacking up there.
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Ya, most every barn I’ve been at had cross ties in the aisle. Only one had actual grooming bays.
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Your BO is actually being very nice to her.
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On the cross ties in the aisleway, the majority of the barns I’ve been at has them. Even if they had grooming/wash stalls and tie rings in the box stalls. Generally it had to do with how tack was stored and how many horses were on site.
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Hopefully, having horses at two different barns will be such a hassle she will move the other horse to the same place.
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That’s what I’m hoping for as well, though I don’t think she will be have as much ability to be “in the way” with just the gelding. He seems to be quite a nice, quiet horse.
Hello. It’s me. Again.
Went to town and on my way back I see a truck and horse trailer turning out of “my road” (a shortish dead end country road with a few horse farms including my own). I did not recognize this rig and so I watched pretty close as they turned out onto the highway. A shiny chestnut horse in the trailer. Now as it happens, I recently received some out of the blue and slightly strange communications from previous connections of my shiny chestnut horse.
Yes. I “chased” down this unfamiliar rig, about 5 miles down the highway, until I could get a better view of the horse to verify it wasn’t my shiny chestnut horse in that trailer.
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The last barn where I boarded had crossties, but both ends of the barn were typically open, so, chances are, you could just go around to the other side. Only ten stalls, so we weren’t usually packed in there all at the same time. The only conflict I saw was when someone wanted to use the wash stall for grooming and tacking up to be out of the aisle and someone else wanted to actually bathe their horse. Most people don’t take too long to groom and tack up. Longer grooming sessions were done outside where there was a hitching post, or in the wash stall (but then, the horses were actually bathed). It was never a long wait to get anywhere.
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I think that making sure it was not your horse is completely understandable. 
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Thanks for making me feel less crazy.
It would be unlikely anyone would steal this horse. But better safe than sorry! And if they did steal him, they’d probably return him promptly once they realized how much his maintenance costs lol.
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I spent over 2 hours dragging the arena (with a pole, off my old man) and watering in hopes to get a ride in with my young horse on decent footing. The entire time I was doing work no one was there.
As soon as I was finished, tacking up my young horse… two people showed up and started lunging on my perfect footing.
It’s not their fault, I’m not mad at them, just wanted to cry that all my work got ruined before I could even enjoy it. Gah, just my luck!
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That just about sums up life as a boarder! Reminds me of all the times I’ve set up cavalettis or jumps only to have someone else come in to ride just as I got on and then proceed to either ride right in front of them or start taking them down without asking!
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Oh this happens every.single.time I set up an intricate jump chute. I end up having to modify it so I can keep her on a line. Dang!! 
I had that happen to me too. I spent about 30 - 40 minutes measuring out the distances and setting jumps only to have an instructor go out and take them all down while I was tacking my horse.
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I set up a “cloverleaf” of small jumps - just a + sign of xrails. I rode my old gelding through it, cooled him out and put him up, and was tacking my mare to ride the same. When I went to the arena, the jumps were all gone.
The weirdest part is there were no people at the barn either! ?? 
??
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Ugh! I don’t get it. I would never waste my energy putting away other people’s jumps or poles so not sure why anyone would do it if there’s a car in the parking lot and potentially someone about to use those jumps…
This gave me flashbacks to when the BO at my old place set up a TON of jumps in the small indoor on a rainy day, including jumps on the rail. She yelled at someone who was about to put the poles down on the rail jumps, even though BO was not planning on using them herself. There really was nowhere to ride…
I don’t get why someone would do it if someone was going to use them, but I do get why someone would do it if they thought they were just left there.
Most multi-use barns the default is to leave the ring empty so others can do as they want.
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Would a booking system work?
Oh we are way too stone ages for that but the answer is yes it would lol
