Retsy Series 1 · Card 0161 · 80-MEM
Copy it ten times or walk home forever.
A handwritten chain letter warning that breaking the chain would give your bike a flat tire by Friday.
The story · 1984
It showed up folded into a tiny square inside your desk, written in three colors of ink and signed by nobody. Ten copies by Friday or your bike tires would go flat, guaranteed. Kids spent whole recesses copying it out, and one boy who tore it up swore his tire hissed the very next morning.
Later versions added a bonus: send twenty copies and your crush would sit next to you on the bus.
Six finishes
Flat Tire Curse comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
80-MEM
Flat Tire Curse is one of 32 cards in the 80s Memes & Fads set. Here are the other 31.
