Do you notice spelling mistakes?

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I hired into a large trucking company, owned by a friend, as a building maintenance worker. Her executive assistant proudly showed me an advertising brochure they had just had printed, and were preparing to distribute. I immediately pointed out a spelling error that even the printers proofreader had missed.
Spelling errors are very obvious to me, and I find them annoying. I am not a proficient typist, and thus have a propensity for making typographical errors, but I consider typos as a separate category of error than misspelling.

Sometimes, but other times, I can't spell something myself.
Eh, i've always been a awful speller.

Yes.

I try very hard not to point them out to people, especially over the internet because I really hate it when people assume you're doing it to be an ass. I'm NOT doing it to be an ass. It just really annoys me to visually see words misspelled. Oddly enough there are a few that I routinely misspell myself.

i aint no grammar freak but when it comes to spelling i prefer to have good spelling. but i dont nitpick over forums and emails and especially instant messages. those i dont mind because i know i will typo on those since i like being fast. but for any type of document you can expect sterling grammar and spelling from my computer system

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Yes. Even in major publications and books, the proofreading standards in this country have gone to poop. Someone should hire us, or we should all start an Aspie Proofreading Company; the attention to detail thing is no trifle when it comes to error checking. We'd probably make bang up bookkeepers, too.

In 6th grade, the last year Spelling was a separate class, had a 99.875%, missing one word the entire school year. Always had low marks under the "effort" heading, apparently doing it perfectly without trouble made me inferior to a student who did slightly worse but tried harder. Thought spelling was best foot until indoctrination into "showing the work" for math done in head, turned out ability was nearly flawless there, as well.

The last spelling test I ever had was at the end of Grade 8. We had already completed all of the spelling units, so for our last test we had to write the lyrics to "O Canada". And I was the only person in the class who got 100%. Most people made mistakes like "We stand on guard for the" instead of "We stand on guard for thee".
Another very common mistake is "In all our son's command" instead of "In all thy son's command". I once saw a school poster with the "O Canada" lyrics on it, and it said "our son's" instead of "thy son's"! Posters like that are probably in schools all over Canada, spreading false information!
And that's not all...Every Friday my school (the one I was at in grade six, seven & eight) had an assembly and the whole school (only 200 students) sang "O Canada" at the beginning of it. And when 96% of the school would say "our son's", I would either yell "It's thy!" after they said it or I would raise my voice when I sang the word "thy!" so they would hear me as they sang the word "our". I started doing the second thing because I started getting in trouble for doing the first thing. For three years I corrected my classmates every time they said "our son's", and after three years most of them still failed to write the correct lyrics when it was a spelling test!
I hate being ignored...

Some years ago I had a rule that I reply only to those dating ads with no spelling or grammar mistakes in them. However, I got acquainted with a nice dyslexic guy and this frame of thinking has changed a little...
But I still correct misspellings and other errors in library books - this helps me to get reminded which ones I've read before as well. Whenever I stumble upon a spelling mistake though, it takes time to figure out which word they meant. It's especially hard when I don't know the language very well (best example for this is detailed diagnostic information sheets, when it's in a horrible Hungarian-Latin or English-Latin pidgin and as far as I experienced, doctors tend to have a horrible spelling ).

I notice spelling mistakes all the time. When something isn't spelled right, I say, "It's not perfect! Oh no, we are all going to die!! !! !! !" Ok, maybe not to that extreme but yes, I do notice spelling mistakes all the time on the Internet and even in some professional books! Or I notice grammar mistakes as well in books and the Internet. When I was young many years ago, I even corrected the teachers! Of course they didn't like that. I know all!

All the time, I'm very meticulous about it. When I see someone making one though, I try to be very selective about who to correct and when to do it, so I don't come across as an ass.