In the first part of our story we see the General Lee, the beloved car of cousins Bo and Luke Duke, speeding down a winding dirt road, splashing through the occasional puddle.

Ya know, Hazzard County is a beautiful place. The mountains are majestic, the lakes are enormous, and the air is crisp and clean. Yet if you had x-ray vision, you just might catch site of that ugly omen that is permanantley affixed over the landscape. A black omen that persistently caused trouble. And that trouble almost always found the Dukes.

"Bo will you step on it, please?" Daisy commanded her younger cousin as he took her on a wild country ride in the orange stock car.

"I would, Daisy, but even the General has his limits. I got him goin' as fast as I can."

"I ain't never seen you this excited to get to work." Luke commented from the passenger's seat where Daisy was sandwiched between them.

"I'm not excited to get to work, I'm late!" Daisy emphasized.

"What's the big deal? Most of the time their ain't nobody there when you open up anyway." Luke pointed out.

"'Cept for Mondays. Enos shows up every Monday at opening time, 12 noon, to order a chicken salad sandwich. Now if I'm late getting there, Enos'll be late getting back from lunch. If he's late getting back to work, Boss is gonna ask Enos why he was late, and then it'll come out that I was late. And that could very well get me fired!"

"I thought Enos was down in Atlanta taking that police academy training course." Bo commented.

"Oh he was. He got back yesterday. Ya know…" She said, smiling. "….I've kinda missed him."

"Lookie here, Luke, Daisy done went and got sweet on Enos." Bo laughed.

"No I am not sweet on Enos. It's just nice to have him around. I can't tell you how refreshing it is to hear someone tell you how nice your hair looks or how pretty your eyes are rather than how tight your……"

"Uh Uh!" Luke stopped her, jerking a thumb in Bo's direction. "There are children present."

"Very funny, Luke." Bo replied with no humor at all as he roared into the parking lot of the Boar's Nest. Enos was just pulling in at the same time.

"Thanks a lot, fellas." Daisy said as Luke slid out of the window and assisted his cousin. He then slid back in.

"Welcome back, Enos!" He greeted from inside the car.

"Thank ya Luke." Enos replied.

"We'll pick you up at 7." Luke added, looking at Daisy, who simply nodded her head in return as the boys peeled out of the parking lot.

"Chicken salad, stranger?" Daisy asked as she unlocked the door.

"Only if you made it, Daisy. Yours is the best."

"Comin' right up." Daisy replied, as she went inside, throwing her purse under the counter. Enos had been joking with her, he knew that she was the only one at the Boar's Nest who made the chicken salad. That was one of the things that Daisy liked about Enos. To him, she was a person, while to every other male in Hazzard she was either a relative, a pair of legs, or simply known as 'Bo and Luke's cousin'.

As she got the chicken salad from the refridgerator and scooped a helping onto a slice of whole wheat bread, she thought about how she wished she could love Enos the way that he had loved her all these years. But the spark was just not there. No matter how hard she tried, she just didn't feel anything special for him.

She placed the other slice of wheat bread on top and added a bag of chips on the side, preparing to go out and have a long chat with Enos about his time in Atlanta. Once she got out to the counter, however, she discovered that Ray Newberry had come in. From what she overheard, the two of them were already midway into a conversation about Enos's police academy adventures.

"Hey Ray, can I get you anything?" Daisy asked, putting Enos's sandwich in front of him..

"Hey Daisy. Beer'll be fine." He replied, turning back to Enos. "So her name's Goldie Matthews, huh? That's kind of an unusual name."

"Oh, but Goldie fits her to a T, Ray. She's got beautiful blond hair and she's one of the prettiest things I ever did see. I tell you, as crazy as it sounds, I don't think I could have asked for a better partner while I was in the academy. She never missed a beat, not once."

Daisy gave Ray his beer and went into the kitchen, where she listed from the door, wondering who Enos's mystery girl was.

Ray laughed. "Enos, it's interesting to hear you talk about her. Almost sounds like you're in love."

"Well in a certain way I guess I am." Enos replied, biting into his sandwich.

Daisy put her hand over her mouth to hide the gasp. She couldn't believe it. Enos in love?

"Say, when am I gonna get to meet her?" Ray asked.

"Eventually. Right now she's laid up over at my place. She hurt her ankle before we left the academy and I insisted on bringing her home with me, so's I could nurse her back to health. Besides, If worse comes to worse, I have more faith in Doc Applebee then any of them fancy doctors in Atlanta."

Daisy turned from the door and processed the information. Enos had brought home his seemingly beautiful partner from the police academy, a partner he wanted to nurse to health and admitted that he loved.

For somebody that's convinced herself that Enos is just a friend, she looks mighty jealous, don't she?