There really are a million good reasons to invest into a good quality zoom or telephoto lens for your camera. When viewing pictures taken by almost anyone, you can tell if they were close enough to the action to take advantage of the range of their lens, but it can be visually disappointing when you are not able to see enough detail.
One of the primary reasons for not buying a digital telephoto lens or zoom lens for a camera is the ability to enlarge pictures on ones computer. People believe that once they transfer a picture to their PC or Mac they can edit it, crop the picture and adjust all of the settings as needed. Naturally this is true to some extent. There are many fixes that you can do at your computer and some of them are required. Red eye removal is one example of a feature that is invaluable when editing digital pictures. But consider that cropping in a small area of a picture you will lose resolution quickly. It can easily become grainy and lose the impact the photo could have had to begin with. Once this problem is realized the choice to leave the photo at it's original distance seems obvious, but it just look wrong.
Spectator events or other situations where you are bound by barriers or obstacles are clear places to use your zoom lens. Situations where you have a wide potential of photographic targets you are faced with so many choices, that your field of vision is large and you need to be far enough back from the action to observe it all. This means that some of the images will be at the correct distance and some will be wrong. With a telephoto zoom lens you can situate yourself where you need to be and start taking great pictures.
We could easily create a list of all the different practical events you might need a zoom lens at, but your particular situation will vary and naturally you already really know the reason why you should have one in your camera bag at all times.
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