Thank your lucky stars that the taxi wasn't being driven by Dr. Wayne Dyer. He would have inevitably said something really silly like:

“I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't…you aren't.”

Then he'd have bored you to tears talking about "Erroneous Zones", and the like. You got off easy.