Before I start I just want to caveat that I know this is a non-issue and I have absolutely no intention of doing anything about it, I just find it slightly odd and want to anonymously share my confusion on the internet to get it off my chest.
Every morning I drop my DC off at school and then walk from there to work. A few minutes into my walk to work there's a zebra crossing, and a lollipop lady has been working there in the morning for a about a year now.
I never actually expected her to step in to help me cross, because I'm obviously an adult and perfectly capable of crossing by myself, and so at first I assumed she only stepped in to help children and families.
Then I noticed that she was stepping in to stop traffic for other lone adults. I thought maybe she did it for people she knew were school parents, of course she wouldn't know that I was because I didn't come from that direction on the way to school with DC. But I've seen her do it for adults who I know don't have school children, and don't have any need for extra help crossing.
Occasionally I've reached the zebra crossing at the same time as other people and so she's stepped into the road for them, and I've always smiled and thanked her as I've passed when that happens, as everyone else does, so it's not like she did it once, I ignored her and now she thinks I'm a rude cow so won't bother.
Anyway, like I said it's a non-issue really and I don't need a lollipop lady to help me cross the road. It's just the fact that she seems to have singled me out as the one person not to help that feels weird, and I don't know what it is about me that made her decide to treat me differently to everyone else.