Right now, how many knives can you touch?

In my RF pocket, three. If I lean or bring the rollator closer, I can reach another two.
If I roll my chair (without standing) about 12 feet over to the how ever the French spell "closet" thing, another 15 or 20; provided I stand up after unlocking and opening the door. The knives are on an upper shelf.
Without standing after opening it, all I could reach is the single bit Hoosier pattern axe I keep in it.

 

Who’s counting?

 

Sorry--was making a reference to the Douglas Adams' book: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "42" is the "answer to the ultimate questions of life, the universe, and everything." Or something like that.

 

without opening any drawers, four. SAK, a stockman, a cheapo little auto, Bear and sons bali. If I were to open drawers probably at least four or five more.

 

Not at all. That is fair game. In fact I had heard that before, it is embedded in our popular culture. That book is one that everybody has read, except for a few outliers like me; I have merely read about it. It is not the first time I have been befuddled in the last couple of days.

 

Five, unless I start looking in my desk drawers.