Sticky pistons don't work in this configuration. They just magically recreate a new piston instead??

With a sticky piston off the ground and facing downwards. Touching another sticky piston angled any direction besides up or down. They are both off. Once I activate the top one, with no extra power it was activating the bottom one. Except! Instead of extending the piston downwards then activating the second piston, it pushes an extra piston. Like the system creates a whole new piston and then Deactivates. Leaving me with 3 instead of the 2 I added. It just keeps adding more and more. I can recreate this and send a picture if needed.