Francis Hotel It’s a ripper, mate
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Francis Hotel
16 Pine Street, Booligar St, Thallon QLD
T: 07 4625 9188
FB: Thallon Pub thallonpub.com.au
SO ANYWAY, IT MIGHT be a surprise but it’s nothing short of fitting to find out that Wazza, the not exactly introverted bloke I find behind the bar of the Francis Hotel’s an ex-railway man.
Used to drive passenger trains in Brisbane until a fatal collision in 1985 scarred him, saw him laid up with some serious PTSD for a while before falling into a few jobs eventually ending with a stint on the road as a country rep for Coke beginning in 2015.
He stuck it out for 6 years until dealing with dopes got too much for him:
“Every time you’d go over the speed limit by 10kph a report automatically went back to head office.”
(That’d go well on bikes, eh?) Anyway, one month he racked up 36 violations and when he got back to head office he was called into a meeting.
“They sat me down in front of one of
