Rant About Track Etiquette

I'll start off by saying that when I googled track etiquette, I found all these rules that were actually pretty standard between tracks but completely unrelated to the kinds of tracks I run at. They seemed to be for high-traffic tracks where competitive people go. I use a small town school track, so the rules don't really apply.

My rant is more of a common sense one, or at least I thought it was. I'm still getting used to running, so 2 of my 3 runs every week are done on a track. These are my main issues:

1. I'll show up, be the only person there or one of two or three people, and decide to take a clockwise day. Everybody knows the basic direction of running on the track is counterclockwise, but it helps you balance out the stress you put on each leg (going through the corners) if every other run, you swap out directions. So I pick a lane that isn't being used, and start running. Then, other people will show up, get in my lane, and go the "right" direction, and expect that I'm going to move. And I'm not. I will run straight through them. I was there first, there were plenty of other lanes to pick, and they were being rude for purposefully choosing to be in my way.

2. People who get in my lane, period. There are 8 lanes at the track I use, and very rarely are there ever 8 people there to use those lanes. In fact, it's never happened while I've been there. So when I'm in the middle of a 35 minute run and new people arrive, see me running in lane 3, and purposefully get in lane 3 to walk, that is rude and I'm going to be very annoyed at them and not show them much if any courtesy. I have run within an inch of people walking in my lane before, and they get all startled and glare at me. I don't give a single ****. I'm giving everything I have just to keep going, and I'm not going to expend extra energy to go around you because you decided to show up and saunter around the track in an already-occupied lane.

3. People who walk across the lanes slowly. Many times, this is done by families with babies. They show up with Jr. who is barely able to walk and they want to have a nice family stroll around the track. For one, why are you going to the track for this?? We have parks. But even that aside, I don't mind them being there as long as they don't show up and take 3 minutes to walk Jr. across the track to lane 1, thus blocking every runner trying to get through. This happens a lot at my track for some reason, and the other day it got a bit dangerous. I actually changed paths to go to the left of dad and baby, and then dad and baby decided to go hard left, almost causing me to run over Jr. I had to careen off to the right and nearly ran into mom and grandma, who luckily ducked aside and let me through. WTF people?? Are you completely oblivious to the 3 other people using this track right now? Get with it.

So uh, as you can see, I don't have much patience for people who don't give consideration to others while using the track. I don't really see it as an incredibly difficult thing to give others, especially those working out harder/faster than you are, their space. Do you guys deal with anything like this, or am I the only one who feels like a grumpalump after leaving the track many days? xD