[vchak1]

Not to mention that the main benefit of playing an instrument is... playing the instrument!

[mywittyname]

Unless you're a teenage boy. Then the primary benefit of playing the instrument is the attention of teenage girls.

[Tade0]

I started playing the guitar when I was sixteen. My good friend from high school who knew the start of a single ballad but otherwise couldn't play got waaay more attention.

Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that I was a proper nerd and he was built like a greek god.