TL: DR- summary wife and I invited to go to swing event, meet other woman, female friend goes batshit about table/chairs setup, cockblocks me and insults other woman to our faces, results in wife and I leaving after being at event less than 1 1/2 hours losing couples entry fee, no fun, canceled former friend from our lives
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Red and I get invited to an event at a hotel by a single woman [sW] (former 1/2 of a swing couple we are/were friends with but never full FWB really.) SW was getting a $70 room, Red getting a $50+ bottle of fun for them both to share, me on beers. SW keeps texting Red as we're on our way about us being late, getting to hotel she's been guarding a 6 chair table, fighting off people - SW always been known for arriving early at opening to get prime seats/table. So Red and I arrived, paid couples fee, get wrist bands, in order to get to SW to get room key from her. We leave bottle on table now with just 5 chairs and she has us leave our small cooler on a chair opposite to her saving the seat for "another person" unspecified, arriving later.
We go to room for Red to change to hot woman clothing, me to dump luggage off for Red. Red sends me back to event to sit at table with SW. Now an unrelated guy has borrowed chair #5 to temporarily talk to group in table next to he one SW and I'm at. No, he's not the issue, he leaves before I get back. SW bitching to me about fighting off folks wanting to sit at the table while I pound 2 beers waiting for Red to arrive. SW up for snacks then back quickly, hasn't been drinking much supposedly. I gander upon another lady completely unknown to us, get up, introduce myself, some small talk, ask her back to table and sit her in the seat where the cooler was sitting. This is my faux pas, not asking SW if I could sit this woman down. For the purpose of this story this new woman has an accent straight out of the movie Fargo. Now I'm standing talking to Fargo woman and SW lights into me that Fargo woman can't sit in the "saved" seat.
Fargo and I laughed nervously that my friend SW could be so protective of a seat for an unspecified person. I said sure, Fargo woman can move to "my" seat, I'll stand. Then SW into me again, how are we all going to fit at the table. I said 5 chairs, enough for all, I'll stand. Nope, SW then lights me up again yelling, right in front of Fargo woman, "She and her obnoxious accent are not sitting at my table!" I said "what the hell, we're not sitting at the table at all." And I drag Fargo woman away from my now seething soon to be former acquaintance SW. Me and Fargo woman head to another part of the venue to await Red's arrival, stay away from SW, and get a little kissing in.
Red finally gets to the venue, figures out what's happening, and SW's ex-husband shows up. Ex-husband was the mystery person. He sees that SW is batshit angry and bails out (ex's for a reason). Once Red sees this go down, she gets me separated from Fargo to get our stuff from the hotel room and put it in our car then come back and party. I realized that SW is so pissed now that she'll probably not let me even hook up with Fargo woman in the room anyhow. Since Red is still sober to drive, I cut our losses and tell Red we're gone. Red goes to tell SW that we're leaving and SW confirms that she would not have allowed me and Fargo into the hotel room and makes additional disparaging remarks about Fargo's body shape. Red told SW that it wasn't fair to me to be there if I couldn't hook up with who she was ok with. I said goodbye to Fargo woman in the hallway and Red and I drove back home.
I've defriended SW on a couple of swinging websites, along with unsubscribed from some places that SW used to get the word out about events or planning for events.