Well, this is awkward, and just goes to show that even if you’re the prime minister of a country, you can’t always get away with everything.

John Key, the PM of New Zealand, was having a bite to eat with his wife Bronagh at a cafe called Rosie when he decided it would be OK to pull their waitresses ponytail.

Yes, that is correct. He pulled a complete stranger’s hair.

The waitress told the world via an anonymous blog post on the left-wing “The Daily Blog” and it has clearly garnered a bit of attention.

She explained how it happened:

In the beginning, the first time he pulled on my hair, I remember thinking to myself he’s probably just trying to be playful and jolly, seeing as the general consensus of most who meet him is ‘he’s such a nice guy’.

The thing is, it didn’t happen just once. The waitress went on to say how it happened over and over during the election campaign and how Key would pretend it was his wife who had pulled her hair.

After some weeks of this happening, Key asked her manager: “She really doesn’t like me pulling her ponytail?” to which the manager responded “well…no”.

Key said in retrospect that “we have lots of fun and games there, there’s always lots of practical jokes and things. It’s a very warm and friendly relationship. But if you look at it now, no. When I realised she took offence by that I just sort of immediately went back, gave her some wine, apologised and said I was terribly sorry.”

Good lad. Everything is always fixed with bottles of wine.

Watch what the general public had to say about the antics of Mr Key.

[Source: Stuff]