The seventh sense: I see chemistry, everywhere

When a recently filled out a questionnaire asking whether I thought about chemistry in my daily life, I said no. Well boy was I wrong. The following moments all happened today:

1) I noticed a social phenomenon that reminded me of nucleophilic substitution. We were sitting in a group and another friend approached us. There were no seats in the vicinity except for one occupied by a stranger to our group and his backpack. The friend who arrived clearly wanted to associate with the positive social nature of our group (i.e. he was the nucleophile). The nucleophile then asked the stranger if he could move his bag so that the nucleophile would have a space to sit. Since the substitution was now complete, the stranger had no attraction to our group and left as a lone anion (he clearly felt a little negative about the whole situation).

2) When I read the ingredients on my flavored drink, I noticed glucose-fructose followed by sucrose. From biochem, I know that when glucose and fructose are joined by dehydration synthesis, they form sucrose. So doesn`t that mean that the company listed sucrose twice in their ingredients list. What`s more frightening is that these were the two most abundent ingredients after water.

3) Lastly, while doing my chemistry tutorial for a lab I have this week, I thought of an interesting mnemonic for electrochemistry (especially if you are an animal lover). It goes as the following: an ox, red cat. See, this mnemonic reminds you that OXidation occurs in the ANode and REDuction occurs at the CAThode. I hope this wasn`t thought of before. It probably has been though.