Meeting at Schlagbaum

With a basket of mushrooms, as usual, I went out on the highway one and a half kilometers from my village. And immediately next to me stopped some unnoticeable “Korean.” Driving for 30 years, apparently Eastern blood, intrigued me with the question: "Where is the shlagbaum?"
Shlagbaums are usually placed in front of railways, and I started pretending where in our places could be near the railway move. I remembered a couple of such things, started explaining how to walk.
But the Caucasian interrupted me, “How many kilometers?”
I answer: “At least 35 in both cases.”
He unhappyly shakes his head: these options are not suitable, the shlagbaum should be somewhere nearby.
I start breaking my brains. I recall a road-by-road bush of a forest worker, the passage to which was flanked by a self-fired shlagbaum. But it burned down last year along with this protective structure. However, the place is very close, and there are no other options, and I give the Caucasian a clue to the burned straw.
As I walked from half a mile, he drove back and forth, stopped next to me again and asked the same question again.
“Why do you need this slug?“I’ve thrown it in my hearts.
“I was appointed for a meeting there,” he complained.
Here I recalled one, seven kilometers away, a cow branch closing on a horizontal shed, and I, in order to separate from the guy with a more or less pure conscience, directed him there.
Soon I was in my village.
This case almost went out of my memory, but somewhere in six months I went to a solid bookstore in Moscow. There, moving from the shelf to the shelf, I somehow involuntarily grabbed a look at a small follicle "A Brief Encyclopedia of a Modern Girl". I began to scratch him. There was a lot of advice on how to behave to girls in different typical life situations. I came across such a paragraph:
"Sometimes, a guy who is unpleasant to you, asks for a date with him. Here it is better not to sew it sharply, but to agree to a meeting, the place of which should look quite specific, but in practice will be too uncertain. For example, to suggest, “Okay, we’ll meet at the nearest shlagbaum.”