This will sound like a fish story, but when I was younger I had a Gemini model rocket single stage size B motor. I purchased a new pake of motors without looking at what stage they where and I had purchased stage 2 thinking that would be ok I used them.

The following day my family and I went to teh cabin to launch the rocket and it went up, and up, and up, and up, and then down and down and down without opeining the parachute. The rocket was coming stright down and I tell you what I swear to god it landed between my shirt and my back. I was going to try to catch it since the parachut did not open and I miss judged the distance and it landed in my back.

No lie.