I'm still musing over this situation a month after it happened. I'm just really confused about it and not sure how others would have reacted.
I was at a meet-up thingy, just a one-off where we were supposed to be learning how to paint. We were sitting in groups of three to share paints etc. All women. None of us had never met either woman in my group before, all said hi, introduced ourselves etc etc.
One woman (woman A)- totally fine. We chatted a bit whenever we were waiting for the paint to dry/during break times etc. The other woman (woman B) talked to woman A but would NOT talk to me AT ALL. A couple of times I would say something (totally innocuous stuff) and she would just go 'hm' and ask the woman A a question or totally change the subject. Meanwhile, woman A would be trying to ask me more about what I had said.
I'm not the most out-going person, and I have issues with making friends beyond the acquaintance stage, but I've never had any issues with initial conversation, so it was really weird. There was nothing I could possibly have said to get her back up, she blanked me basically from the moment I introduced myself.
There's no way she's heard some viscious rumour about me or anything, we live on opposite ends of a huge city, no mutual friends or anything like that, besides which, I live a very quiet, placid life.
A few things she said did strike me as odd. One of the first questions she asked was if my husband was the same age as me. I said he was a year older and she said 'oh my husband is 10 years older, there's no way I could marry someone the same age as me.' I thought that was a bit weird, but I just brushed it off, cos whatever. She was also a bit boasty about some stuff like the size of her house and her husband's job, at one point she said something like 'not to show off, but my husband is a manager at xyz, sorry' which struck me as really odd (especially considering she doesn't even know what my husband does.)
It was like she had immediately decided I was beneath her in some way. And it really really doesn't bother me, it was just so.weird.
Woman A was totally fine and we're meeting up again next week, so it's not like I made some terrible social blunder or something.
We were there for 3 hours while she merrily chatted to woman A while ignoring me. TBH, it got awkward towards the end because it was so obvious.
I'm just wondering what others would do in this situation? Should I have said something? Or just let it lie and accept that some people just hate others on sight?