My near death experience

So, after this weekend I have a new outlook on life. I had a near death experience. Now I almost wish that I would have died so I didn't have to watch the pathetic football played by my U-M Wolverines and my Lions, but unfortunately I survived. So I was having some fun launching model rockets with some chums of mine. After about 2 launched we got bored of having the rocket go straight up and straight down, so we attached E engines to a A rocket, which is about the equivalent of a NFL linebacker next to a Jr. high kid who hasn't yet hit his growth spurt. The rocket shot up about 2000 feet doing spirals through the air. It got a good laugh out of us but we wanted more, so for the next launch we aim the rocket at a 45 degree angle. It shot so far I think it is still going. Wow, that was great but we just needed to launch one more rocket. As we hooked it up there was one little problem. We were out of ignitors. So, a very wise friend of mine suggested "Lets just light it with a match". "Sounds great", replied the rest of the stupid crowd. However, in our stupidity we were smart enough to not light it with our hands. We tied three matches to the end of a pole and lite those matches. But, the engine would not ignite. The little plastic rocket did ignite. We knew eventually that the fire would reach the engine and it would explode. So we waited and waited and waited. We thought how cool would it be if it shot off like a flaming fireball through the sky. Unfortunately, it did not. So we waited and waited and waited some more. Just when it looked like the entire contraption had disintegrated we walked towards it to stomp on it and put it out. When we were a step away someone said, "How funny would it be if right now it just wen BA-!" Before he could finish the word BAM it exploded. We all hit the deck. The shooting fire scorched the hair on my arms and legs. After the inferno had died down we got up and counted everyone to be sure that they were still there. Thankfully everyone had survived, but if that rocket had waited one more second to explode I probably wouldn't be writing this right now. So, if I learned anything from this it would have to be a burning rocket engine will explode.