Man sends email to 246 women named Nicole, trying to find one girl

A bevy of women named Nicole at the University of Calgary have united thanks to a mass email from a young man on a quest to locate his missed connection.

The Friday morning email came from Carlos Zetina, who wrote that a woman named Nicole gave him the wrong phone number after he took her and her friend home on Thursday night.

“Who sends an email to that many people? If it was me, I’d be a little horrified about how this all played out,” said Nicole DuGraye, one of the 246 people copied on the message. “But I thought this was a great way to connect and meet new people and to try to find the real Nicole.”

The thought prompted her to create a Facebook group called “Nicole From Last Night,” and they’ve now planned a get-together in a bid to make friends and to find the woman Zetina was looking for.

A mini meetup happened Friday, she said, with plans for bigger gatherings to come.

Zetina, a first-year student at the university, said he sent the email because he didn’t want Nicole to think he was “a bad guy who didn’t text back.”

“We met at the campus bar and we talked and had struck a pretty interesting conversation,” said Zetina. “She gave me her number, but I guess she accidentally gave me the wrong one because when I texted her the next day, a different person messaged me back that it wasn’t her.”

So the following morning, Zetina said, he sent an email to 246 people with “Nicole” in their name, writing that the Nicole he is looking for is from Holland and thinks German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is “depressing.”

“If you don’t fit this description then ignore and if you are the one and just don’t want to talk to me that’s ok as well,” Zetina wrote in the email.