this guy had actually seen ( on the rare occasions he found himself in a dennysactually only once , at this dennys , late on a saturday night in the not too distant past , enjoying a bottomless cup of coffee ) quite a variety of marginal losers , not much different from ned , hogging up the booths ( just one to a booth , no matter how large the table ) with cigarettes dangling out of their mouths ( chain smoking in fact ) in the smoking section at this very dennys , which at present , from a point on the sidewalk just beyond the parking lot , appeared to be completely deserted .