For what it's worth, although it's usually better to go with the flow and do what everyone else is doing, even with control in the cab you can ask for whatever you want. You are supposed to ask, in fact (AIM 4-3-6). The other night, KOAK (the real one, not the VATSIM one) had one arrival on the 11 even though they really were in west (normal) ops, departing and landing on the 29. No problem. Tower & ground got the 11 arrival to the ramp without it going nose to nose with the 29 departures.

At uncontrolled airports, although again you're much better going with the flow (that's why the traffic pattern was invented), there's nothing that I've ever seen in part 91 that says you HAVE to do so. Part 91 says you have to make left turns in the pattern unless there are clear indications that right turns are required, but it doesn't say you have to land into the wind. Or take off into the wind, for that matter. I saw an ASRP report the other day of two aircraft that tried to take off in opposite directions on the same runway at the same time. There was a little rise in the middle of the runway, so neither pilot could see the other or hear the other's CTAF broadcast. Oops. Fortunately it was a near-miss, not an actual collision.

Just thought I'd point it out, and encourage everyone to not get upset with pilots who go against the flow. It might be easier and safer (well, in our case, virtually safer) to go the "right" way, but it's not worth getting upset about if they don't.