I found this list in a forum on the German Facebook - so the authors are a lot of poeple how have been to Taizé too often.
1) Orange is your favourite colour
2) You wear sandals even in the wintertime
3) You can give every number from 1 to 230 a taize song title
4) You know liturgical vocabulary in five different languages (at least)
5) You know only first letters of your friends’ surnames
6) You can name certain things in English only
7) You can say how long it takes to the next prayer just by the intensity of the incense smell
8) You sort your books into piles of five
9) You can express your height in piled Taize songbooks
10) You try to bribe people with cookies
11) You feel good only when there is a carpet in the church
12) You are surprised when you see chairs and benches in the church
13) You think that the floor is more comfortable than a chair
14) Major part of your clothes is blue and beige
15) You are surprised when half of your friends doesn’t go back home on Sunday
16) You are surprised when you understand everything during the Sunday Mass
17) You are surprised when you work every week in the same place
18) You are surprised when you work every week with the same people
19) You know “life commitment” by heart
20) You can say whicz brother gives a particular workshop just by its title
21) You think that forks are funny
22) You start your every speech with: Is English OK for everyone?
23) You think that eating potatoes with rice and bread is perfectly normal
24) You make such lists
25) you don*t undertstand that you don*t have to explain the work again every Monday morning
26) you wonder, why people at mess are the same every Sunday
27) you*re listening to health advises given by a brother
28) Your "Eselsbrücken" usually starts by ... in Taize there is.
29) You think that Robbie Williams looks like ...
(it's the directin, not the person!)
30) Du dich entschuldigst, weil du nur 4 Sprachen sprichst.
31) You forgot, that "brother" also can mean a relative
32) you take paracetamol in every kind of sickness or disease
33) you still eat your yoghurt with a knife (thank you Annika)
34) you don't dare to talk more than five minutes with a male person
35) you sort your sheets in a special way: one on the floor, nine inside!
36) you eat your frommage blanc with a fork because there are no more spoons
37) your favourite writer is Henri M. Nouwen
38) you don't know what to do because your name hasn't been on the working list...actually there was no working list!
39) you think it is perfectly normal to eat ketchup with everything
40) the brother working in the church knows your name
41) you want to leave your computer after 15 minutes
42) you ask everyone: "Can I help you?"
43) when people ask you: are you back or are you still there?
44) when the bells in your hometown are ringing and you think "oh I have to to the prayer"
44) You wonder how your roomates can use a GREEN sponge for toilets.
45) You wonder why you are the only one in your neighbourhood who is sorting rubbish like: Flat boxes. Cartons. Plastic. Big bags.
46) You wonder why you´re the only one in the opera who is doing the "olinda clapping" when the curtain goes down...
47) You think that a cup with wild flowers and an icon are the ultimate room decoration.
48) You´re searching for the hamster in the tourist information office.
49) (only for theology students *g*) You start every discussion with: "Well, Fr. John says..."
50) You don´t ask people" Where are you from?" but: "What is your post code number?"
51) you're perfectly 10 minutes late for EVERY mess or prayer... hey, you have 10 min time as soon as the bells start to ring, don't you???
52) you don't understand why all people around you speak the same language.
53) when you don't dare to talk more than five minutes with a male person
54) when you meet people at university who say: "Hey, I know you, we worked together in Oyak!"
55) you wonder why you can buy more than three packages of the same Chocolate
56) you think puting chocolate on rolls is perfectly normal
57) you name your householdthings
58) your new politic teacher tells you "I know you, last year in summer, you put me in the cleaning toillet team".
59) you go and wear your socks because the brother told you.
60) You change the sheet of your bed on Thursdays
61) Your friends are worried because you always start singing after lunch (it’s song practise time!)
62) You give the typical excuse “I have a contact meeting” when you want to escape from an uncomfortable situation.
63) When you organize a party, you give your friends some tea, cookies and chips, bring a guitar and dance Macarena and Bamba.
64) When you hang out the telephone you still ask: N’Toumi, Jana speaking?
65) You go to the baker’s and ask for “olinda bread”
66) You go everywhere with your great-grandfather’s bike (the first one he bought).
67) You’re very happy after eating because there isn’t any long queue to the washing up.
68) Your parents are really happy because you do your own washing up (but you never change the water!)
69) You clean the floor of your house by overflowing a bucket full of water away (before you discover that in you’re house there are not so many drains and you don’t have any squeezer…)
70) When you have to say something you go above a bench and shout “I have to make an announcement!!”
71) You know which brother is playing the keyboard just by listening it.
72) You’re favourite singer is brother Jean-Marie.
73) When you see a washing machine you hug it, cry of emotion and pray for the person that invented it
74) You promise yourself you won’t drive a van again.
75) You eat pizza on Sundays
76) You never eat ice-cream or just in really special occasions.
77) You clean your entire house on Sundays and, afterwards, you go to the street with a bag to collect rubbish
78) You’re surprised there is so many people in the street after eleven in the night and making such noise, so you go there and invite them to “go to bed”
79) Your bad luck number is 5.
80) You think trains of your city are really slow
81) You’re friends are worried because you never say anything at lunchtime on Fridays, you always eat fish then and you listen classic music (normally Vivaldi) while you’re eating!
78) When you sit down on the church and you don’t know the person sitting next to you, you ask: are you a permanent?
82) When you enter a church you look always for “réservée” sign.
83) You can say some words in really strange languages, like Catalan ;)
84) You can unblock a toilet with a “magic stick”
85) You can recognise a community car from 1km far.
86) When something in your house is broken, you look for Cadolle telephone number in the Yellow Pages.
87) You never say a word when you are in a forest or near a lake
88) You are able to do mashed potatoes for 2000 people in 3 minutes.
89) When you go to a fast food restaurant you always ask for the “extra food line”
90) You like to sit down near all the hedges you find.
91) If you make all your smileys like =)
92) If you try to make a queue at the bus/ Train station
93) If you can add "I´m going to the laundry" in an ordinary conversation....
94) you think that it is very strange that the avarage age in church is around 75
95) your wondering when there is only one big queue in the church
96) you meet somebody on the street with a suitcase and the first thing you want to ask: "Are you leaving allready?"
97) you answer the question “how are you” with “lost”
97) you put "****" for all your passwords (alright, this will be kept private)
98) you put an orange orange piece of cloth on your suitcase telling everyone "god travells with me"
99) the question people asks you about your holidays is "when are you going" and not "WHERE are you going"
100) you can’t decide whether brothers/sisters/Lamba should be economically defined as a family or a private household