Never been treated so bad or actually scared to be attacked by an employee, still have no idea what we couldve done to upset her

Wanted to return a table that we bought day before and never picked up bc we realized dimensions too big.

When we asked cashier if we could do that she chuckled (which was kinda weird but ok lol) and called for manager

manager came (clearly very annoyed she had to come to register but its whatever, could be having a bad day) and said no im not going to do that, u can exchange

So we said okay no problem, we didnt know about return policy, so we just found something to exchange it with

Went to register and asked if it was okay if we exchanged what we found for the table, she said just take them and leave then said BYE loudly while rolling her eyes, starting to cause a scene and cause people to look over

I was stunned at how she was acting because it was so blatantly mean for no reason and my boyfriend and his mom were being nothing but nice so i just said - “whatd we do why are you being rude?”

to which she started hysterically screaming “I am not being rude there must be something SERIOUSLY wrong w YOU” she was stuttering and acting really frantic and started walking toward me.

I walked out bc we were genuinely scared of her at that point and the other 2 people were in line just standing there and not walking up bc she was clearly acting unhinged

If shes not special needs or anything she does not need to be working anywhere around people, I am not exaggerating we were 100% nice to her and the manager and not trying to cause any issues whatsoever I genuinely have no idea what warrented her reaction and only asked what we did bc i was curious what we could’ve said or done to upset her.

If exchanging was such a big deal that wouldve been fine we didnt mind losing out on 20 bucks over the table

Literally not going to be able to stop thinking about this bc I have never ran out of a store feeling scared of an employee or yelled at by an employee im a service worker myself and understand how badly they can be treated I would never be rude in any way so I just can’t understand what we did. Never going back out of genuine fear.

0/10 experience really hope it wasn’t racially motivated toward my boyfriend and his mom and she was just special needs or having an extremely bad day or something