Student emails 246 Nicoles to find lost connection
Montreal: Boy meets girl, girl gives boy wrong number: some people might take it as a hint, but one Canadian student decided it was a challenge.
He emailed 246 women at the University of Calgary with the first name “Nicole” in search of the one he had met the night prior — causing many of the women on the mass email chain to strike up a friendship.
“We have this Nicole network now,” said communications student Nicole Manaog. The girl gang formed after Carlos Zetina met one Nicole on Thursday when the pair apparently hit it off — but Zetina only managed to snag her first name and a wrong number.
So he sent out an email blast: “Met you last night and you gave me the wrong number,” he wrote in the subject line.
But as a Dutch exchange student, Toetenel does not have an email address affiliated with the university in Canada’s Alberta province.
The other women, however, began a long thread and soon created a Facebook page they dubbed “Nicole From Last Night” to have a mass conversation sans Zetina.
“We created a Facebook page and we’ve been chatting that way,” said theater student Nicole Rathberger. Some 15 of the Nicoles met up at a bar near the university campus, and the “real Nicole” was finally made aware of the situation through a friend.
She is expected to attend the next meeting of the Nicoles, along with a least 25 more women.
Zetina finally received word from the object of his affection via text message. The two plan to get coffee next week.