Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

In Bombeck’s characteristic domestic satire, the joke turns on how social gatherings—especially reunions—reduce complex lives to quick, often gendered judgments. Pregnancy becomes a highly visible “headline” that can eclipse a woman’s other achievements, inviting the assumption that motherhood is the only meaningful change since graduation. The line skewers both the superficial scorekeeping of reunions and the cultural habit of measuring women’s lives primarily through family status. Beneath the humor is a critique of how public perception can flatten identity, and a reminder that what others notice first is not necessarily what matters most.