You got the cringing part right...

The resident assistants at my dorm were forced by the university housing office to count EVERY single hole in the wall, damage to bathrooms, wrecked university dorm chairs, etc.

This "damage fee" was then translated into an end-of-the-semester bill that each student had to pay if they wanted to get back into the dorm the next semester.

Pretty sneaky!

Good suggestion on the spackle... that $0.79 might save you $7.90.