To answer a few questions :-)I acquired the bottle at the local...

To answer a few questions :-)

I acquired the bottle at the local priceline shop.
It took some time to find it, only a single bottle on the shelf and well hidden.

No, I didn't engage the sales assistant in a conversation on the merit of the product.
Would she know about all those problems and challenges middle age men are facing?
Her qualities were of a different kind. Nevertheless I enjoyed the shopping experience.

I still have a reasonable hairy scalp, given my age (52). -Thanks to years of minoxitil use.
My local doc recommended it at the time. I wasn't aware of all the side effects it might have and associated the symptoms which gradually crept up on me with my advanced age.
Being of regaine now for a month and felling heaps better. Please do your reaserch before using that stuff. And yes Regaine/Rogaine works , but it comes at a price (for me).

No, the nozzle wasn't blocked. On the weekend I will but my engineering mind to it and carefully dissecting the bottle.
I guess, it will be safer for me in the workshop anyway when my partner finds out, that I had to dump that smelly fluid which was in her dispenser at the time when I confiscated it.
But I still carry the hope, that she will understand. After all, in years to come she will still have a partner proudly displaying a full crop of hair.

To be fair, it could be just one bad bottle.