When it suddenly gets twilight dark in the middle of the day without a cloud in the sky people damn sure do look up.
It doesn't get "twilight dark" until 98% of the sun is obscured. If that's the maximum totality you experience, you experience it for ten seconds and then it's daylight again. Throughout the sun is too bright to look at.
By now I've probably experienced 10 90%+ partial eclipses plus three total eclipses. The first total eclipse I traveled to was obscured by clouds that rolled in five minutes before totality. It was a big nothing. During the partial eclipses, people look for strange shadows under trees. Other animals don't care. Big whoop.
ML/NJ