There's nothing more miserable than a rainy day.
Correction make that a rainy day in New York City.
It was bad enough with crowds due to street and sidewalk traffic, but poor weather be it snow, sleet and especially rain seemed to make it worse.
People rushing about drying to not get soaked by the on going drops of either a simple drizzle or a downpour.
Not to mention the large sized puddles that form in the potholes in the streets.
This caused many fellow New Yorkers to become bitter and moody.
And Jeanie Melnitz was one of those New Yorkers.
Down right bitter and moody.
And it wasn't because of the weather, it was her job.
And this was no ordinary job, she was the receptionist of the largest paranormal removal company AKA the Ghostbusters.
While Jeanie loved her job, like all careers it had it's ups and downs.
And today was truly a down day.
It wasn't the fact that after spending an entire morning typing up reports and once finished, Dr. Peter Venkman gave her a full stack of new in-voices.
It had nothing to do with the unofficial Ghostbusters mascot Slimer, eating all the jelly doughnuts even though she asked the green ghost to save her one.
The cause didn't come from having to stay behind at the Ghostbusters headquarters AKA the firehouse, while her four bosses got to have all the excitment on the job of catching ghosts as she just typed and answered the phone.
The blame of her sour mood was not on when the guys returned back from a job, Dr. Ray Stantz accidentlly knocked over her coffee mug with a ghost trap, which caused the beverage inside to spill on her pink top.
The way she felt that day didn't come on, when she offered a cup of coffee to Dr. Egon Spengler who just said thank you and not even gave her a second glance.
Maybe it was a little bit of that.
The real reason actually was that it came from a phone call earlier in the day.
It was when before the Ghostbusters had gone on their first assignment that day, when the phone rang.
"Ghostbusters.
If it's haunted, we want it," Jeanie answered.
"Is this really the Ghostbusters?" asked the person on the phone, who had a snooty tone of voice.
"Of course it is."
"Oh, I also thought Ghostbusters was described as a professional business.
Judging by your voice I thought I got in touch with a hair salon or one of those chessy clothing botiques."
That comment really broke her heart.
Jeanie took the information she needed, hung up the phone and summoned the Ghostbusters to take the call by ringing the fire alarm bell, causing the guys to race downstairs, take the information they needed from Jeanie, and drove to where they needed to go.
Jeanie was relief after the guys left, as she didn't want them to see her wipe tears that began to fall down her face.
Of all the time Jeanie had been working for the Ghostbusters, never once did a call make a comment, so rude, so insulting and mostly hurtful about her voice.
As a girl from Brooklyne, she indeed had a heavy accent that her mother told her as a child that it would stick with her for life.
Nobody in her neighborhood, school or family ever gave Jeanie a hard time about her voice, look, hair or anything else about her body or personality.
Sure as she got older and moved out on her own, Jeanie realized that it was quite a different world from how and where she grew up, but Jeanie managed to get by, thanks to her tough as nails, no nonscense attitude, which does come in handy working with the Ghostbusters.
But today, the phone call just broke her heart and spirit, how the person at the other end of the phone line pictured Jeanie as some ditzy dingbat, instead of a smart woman who was not afarid to speak her mind.
That is until today.
Although Jeanie was able to keep her emotions under control for the rest of the day, but those words made her feel insecure for the remainder of the day.
She just couldn't just shake off what was said to her.
While Jeanie tried to put on a brave face with a smile, deep down however she was still hurting.
It was actually Winston Zeddmore who had just gotten the mail noticed something was up with the red haired receptionist.
He appoarched her deask and asked,"Jeanie, are you OK?"
Jeanie, who was in a bit of a trance snapped back to reality and answered,"Yeah, I'm fine.
Thanks for asking Winston."
"Are you sure?
You've been quite most of the day."
"Just feeling a bit under the weather today."
"If you want to leave early to go home and rest, don't worry we got things cover."
"No I'll be fine thanks."
"OK.
Let me know."
Just then, the two heard a voice coming from the stairway.
"Yo Winston, did you get the mail?" called the voice which just happened to be Peter.
"Got it here," Winston answered.
Peter appoarched his fellow Ghostbuster, took the mail and the liberty of sorting it out.
He then carefully looked through each piece and divided it into 5 piles.
"Let's see, said Peter, Comic Book of the month club, that's for Ray.
Auto And Driver magazine goes to Winston, Egon's Mushroom Digest came today, I got my copy of issue of The Lifestyles Of The Rich And The Powerful, and Jeanie gets the bills."
He then handed Jeanie her "mail."
Usually she'll make a snappy comeback to the Ghostbuster, but not today.
"What's the matter, out of zingers?" asked Peter.
Jeanie didn't answered.
Peter walked up to Jeanie and said,"Earth calling Jeanie.
Planet Earth calling Ms. Jeanie Melnintz."
Jeanie sharply turned to Peter and snapped,"I heard Venkman!"
"Whoa, take it easy, Jeanie.
You know I was just joking around with you," said Peter, trying to calm her down, which wasn't working.
"Peter, give Jeanie a break.
She's not feeling well today," said Winston.
"I don't need your pity Zeddmore!" Jeanie snapped.
She then got up from her desk, grabbed her purse, jacket and headed for the door.
Jeanie then walked into the rainy outdoors, before slamming the door behind her.
Just then, Ray, and Egon raced downstairs, along with Slimer, who they were running tests on.
"What's all that racket down here?" asked Egon.
"What happened?" Ray added.
"And where Jeanie go?" asked Slimer.
"She stormed out of the office," Winston answered.
"Did we forget to pay her again?" asked Peter.
"She said she wasn't feeling well and your clowning around didn't help at all."
"That still wouldn't be why Jeanie would snap at everyone and walk out," said Ray.
"I don't know.
It could be something more serious," said Egon.