Never understood Elf ' s appeal . Just awful and lame . Not one good joke . Just Will Ferrel yelling Santa ! and oh look a grown man in an elf costume . Hilarious . Yuck . <| sep |> Yeah he made that bit up . <| sep |> My mom was dropping me off at highschool and I was already in state of high anxiety paired with extreme hunger . I had a surgery scheduled later that day but had been told no food for 24 hours . On the way to school as we stopped at a stop light , a truck made a left turn onto the street I was on , going in the opposite direction and a semi plowed into him as he made that turn . Both vehicles turned towards the car I was in . I screamed and remember thinking , if the trucks hitting us doesn ' t kill me , my heart is just going to give out . Both trucks managed to miss our car by inches . I still had to go to school . I still had to have the surgery .