Better Days Aside ... haha ... what does that even mean? Still giggling.

And yes we can't help but understand things from what we "think" we already know. It is truly unavoidable but we can make a practice of assuming positive intent. That is ... assume the speaker did not mean to offend or offer anything negative. Even when the speaker did indeed mean to offend, understanding that people can only come from where they were before, might allow someone to react with positive intent in response and turn a situation around. Gentle redirection and humor tends to help.

PS. In my day we had more options. There was Baby Duck and Pastel Pink and Pastel Passion. I got a funny story about the latter:)