Totally indestructible. We had the same phone in the kitchen for decades.
Not quite.
A lightning bolt struck the line out where my grandma lived and everyone on the party line had a bright light flash in their house right before the phones melted.
A friend had a wall phone who’s brother broke it off the wall with a crutch. Jock got tired of answering Dan’s calls. Jock was in a leg cast... the phone was in the kitchen...