It's Not You, It's Me

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to dissolve the personal bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

But who has the time to work up a detailed declaration of rejection every single time? I know I don't.

Luckily, there's now an alternative. As a promotion for the book Other People's Rejection Letters by Bill Shapiro, Crown has posted a Reject-o-Matic, which will automatically generate rejection letters suitable for all occasions.

Here's one example that I just whipped up.

The template isn't quite as sharable as I'd like -- it generates a page on the publisher's server, and a link to that page, rather than a discrete bit of code that can be embedded in any webpage -- but it's still a fun tool. Use it to reject all of your friends!