This just happened and it’s been super stressful, wondering if I made the right decision.

I share an apartment with another woman, and we’ve been decent enough acquaintances. I’m the primary tenant but she’s subleasing and the landlord is ok with that.

Apparently she walked out to this “fair” that had all sorts of attractions and animals. It was walking distance, about a mile away from our unit. I remember it being advertised but didn’t go.

Well, to put it plainly, she got spat on by a camel. She texted me shortly after it happened to “warn” me and that she was coming home. I thought, okay, what’s the big deal, come home.

I saw her coming up the steps, looking miserable, through the window and went out to the porch to greet her, and instantly I was hit with the most unbelievably vile smell I’ve ever smelled, from a good 20 feet away. I really couldn’t take it, I got only a whiff and I could feel my stomach churning.

I went back inside and closed the door. She came up and tried to get inside with her key but I was practically begging her “No, whatever happened you can’t come in like that.” She was yelling “What, I live here!” and then was practically crying that she had nowhere else to go. I said I’m sorry but there’s no way, I can’t let that smell in here, I could smell her through the door, I was gagging.

I suggested that she find a hose, or shower somewhere, or jump in a creek, or something, anything but coming in like that, but she was saying no store would let her in…

But I held firm. I held the door closed until she walked away. She came back an hour later soaking wet (maybe she had jumped in a creek) and opened the door (I couldn’t just sit there holding it shut all day), and the smell was maybe barely better but still horrific. She jumped straight into the shower, but I can still faintly smell it throughout our whole living room and it’s making me feel absolutely sick.

Now we’re both furious at each other. I’m mad that she came back in before the smell was gone and now the whole place smells unbearable. She’s furious that I dared to hold the door shut and keep her out and is saying that she’ll be talking to the landlord or a lawyer because that can’t be legal, but I don’t know what else I could have done, this is dreadful.

AITA?

tl;dr held the door shut to prevent apartment-mate from coming in stinking to high heaven