In school I played cello. Stopped that when I was 17 due to other things.
I noticed, in my 40s, I'd spent my entire adult life thinking of myself as "musical" without playing a note.
A friend of mine had guitar, wanted to play with someone. I knew I wasn't interested in the lead guitar widdling and that I preferred the lower end of the scale. I might have been a rhythm player if I'd tried to learn on an electric, I suppose.