Originally Posted by: basics...I don't think it'll ever be directly useful for me, nor will any of the other instruments my parents crammed down my throat...

I think it will,since there's some things you can do on a given instrument you can't quite do on another,and these differences you might find useful,or they might make you look in a direction you otherwise wouldn't have.
I think.
I can play a coupla chords on a piano,but that's about it.But I will learn.