I think I've told this story on here before, but oh well.
I started playing guitar when I was about 12 because my friend told me one day at recess that he was going to start taking lessons the following year. For some reason I hated the idea of him playing guitar and me not being able to (even though I wasn't really into music at the time), so that night I told my dad I wanted to play guitar. He plays guitar too, so he taught me a few chords, and here we are now.