No, you aren't warped! When I was 12 years old, my mother lived in Providence, RI and my father and I lived in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

I could fly up on Allegheny Airlines nonstop but always chose to fly a Nord-262 to Newark connecting to a Allegheny BAC-111 that stopped in Hartford on the way to Providence. I chose the 4 hour journey over the 55 minute flight anytime I could.

Also, when I was 16, I flew Northwest from Minneapolis to Seattle. Did I choose the nonstop? Nope. I took the 727 that went Minneapolis-Fargo-Billings-Bozeman-Butte-Spokane-Seattle!!!! The good old days before deregulation....