i'm glad those days are over.
i use to be a school assistant. so if there was a no show..
i'd do the talk.
one month, i did 4 talks. thats one everyweek. last minute.
well on the 4th week i had no idea what to talk about.
i did a horrible job. the 5 minute talk turned out to be about 2.5 minutes.
never done a substitute since.